Show Quotes

Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along.

I like a show to unfold and keep presenting itself, surprising you.

Every comedian dreams of hosting 'The Tonight Show' and, for seven months, I got to. I did it my way, with people I love, and I do not regret a second.

It's nice to have been around long enough to be a part of people's lives. A lot of people who come to my show are real nostalgic for the '80s.

I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gather behind you and help you to succeed in any way possible.

My children have become popular, and they show a tremendous love for the public. They're professionals.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Each show comes with its own set of problems to work through.

You have to show Israel that it's not going to be forced to do things it doesn't want to do and can't do.

I was young and so eager to make some money as well as get exposed and show my talent.

You don't even have to win a championship every year to draw the fans. You just have to show you're really trying.

I have to have a little bit of time to myself right before whatever it is that I have to do because most of the time I'm sitting in my head convincing myself to calm down, all right, show down.

It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

I mean, when I started out I was billing per hour, like a shrink because you would sit with somebody and work. But most of it, if it's for a live show it's usually a buy-out. A flat fee.

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

What I would have liked to do on that show was play a secretary of state who has huge personal business interests throughout the world. That, to me, seems to be more in synch with reality.

I have talked to Debbie Hammond quite a bit, Jim Hammond's wife, his widow. I've seen their kids. And last time we played Dallas, a lot of them came over. It's hard for them to come see the show. It's still hard.

The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

I'm very focused on "Dexter" right now. I want to make it as good of a show as we can.

Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show.

I don't mind if I show myself being cheap or unreasonable sometimes.

Every show on television has a downward trend because there are so many more things to watch. You can only deal with what is the benchmark of a hit series and 'Survivor' clearly remains a hit series.

I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.

The big advantage to playing the Venetian in Las Vegas - where it's a beautiful theater - is that unlike other places, even many other nice venues, I can do a set and lighting cues, I can put on a real show. I can dress up, wear a tux.

The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot.

In the initial season of a show, you're figuring out your character and their life and their background and you're putting together all the chapters of the book.

Throughout this evolution from left to right, Beard always detested war. Hence his writings were slanted to show that the military side of history was insignificant or a mere reflection of economic forces.

There are a lot of food Nazis in the U.S., but I believe if you can show people what's really important, they'll judge the rest for themselves.

Iraq now says that it will, after all, destroy its missiles. President Bush said, 'Please, I used to pull the same trick. There'd be an intervention, I'd make a big show of pouring out the liquor and then there was a case under the floorboards.'