Betty Grable Quotes

I came from a real working-class show business family.

I was a weirdo to want to be in show business. Most kids wanted to be teachers or nurses.

I would love to be on 'Glee,' thus furthering the myth that I'm a gay man.

No one would have picked me out in high school and said, 'This guy is going to be in show business.' I don't have any of the talents you would normally associate with show business.

I'm a song and dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit of my talents.

I would really love to do a musical, I don't know in what capacity but something funny.

In my heart and soul, I always knew that I wanted to be in show business.

I'm an entertainer - that's what I do.

It never dawned on me I would do anything but show business.

My father was an entertainer, and he knew what he was doing.

My job as an entertainer is to give a great show.

My dream has always been to be in entertainment.

I'm not the smartest dude in the world. (After all... I picked a career in acting.)

I always wanted to be on 'Glee.' As soon as the pilot aired, I said I needed to be on the show.

I'd love to do movies and be on TV. But I think if I transitioned into TV/film completely, I would really miss singing and dancing. It would be ideal to be cast in a movie musical!

I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.

If you can't laugh at yourself, then how can you laugh at anybody else? I think people see the human side of you when you do that.

Let's face it, I'm not winning a fight with anybody - unless it's against someone like Larry David.

The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.

It's funny... musical theater is what paid my rent and kept me going for the longest time.

I think you have to have a sense of humor about every movie that you're doing. Your character needs to be relatable in a way that, even when you're doing the most bizarre things, sometimes a bit of tongue in cheek is necessary to keep up the believability of it.

Yes, I have a good sense of humor to sort of last a long time in show business, and I think to be able to find comedic value in who you are and the people that you work is always a good thing.

There's no business like show business.

I'm a reasonably good actor, and I'm an average naval officer. Ha, ha!

When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.