Show Biz Is the Worst! Hear Me Out.

And it's not just the actors. I worked for a year at an Off-Broadway theater company, doing everything but acting (never interested in that part of it). The egos of everyone involved finally turned me off to the point that I left the biz and never looked back. Watching the Oscars last night had me realizing that I definitely made the right decision.

love you, galliano!

Well as the lady said"you want fame, well fame costs".

It's beyond worst. It's so difficult, strange, so disgusting and messy, that Mike Rowe, host of 'Dirty Jobs' has refused to get involved in and explore.

On the other hand, there's always a Pact (Faustian bargain) one can make with the Devil.

On my first date with Paul Bellini, writer for the Kids in the Hall, I casually said that based on my experience, "showbusiness sucks." He said that's when he knew we would get along well. We were together for five years. If you're in the business, you know the truth.

And when you die, morticians will be selling tickets to necrophiliacs to view or screw your dead, naked body.

I think you are so right, Mikey! Even more than a painter or a writer, because you can do those things even if you end up getting (gasp!) old. To be in show biz, seems like aging is a huge sin. Singing and dancing must be the worst, because you have to keep at it constantly to be on your toes and age will get ya in the end, happens regardless of how you fight/dread it.

You didn't even mention how insanely stupid and uncomfortably weird total strangers begin to act towards you when you have the slightest bit of success whatsoever. And EVERYBODY'S a critic.

You don't even mention being sent to the "regional stages" as a bit of purgatory.

Jonster, you make it all sounds so squalid--but it also sounds pretty spot-on. No wonder show biz attracts such neurotic, needy messes.

Plus, you better have a tough hide and be prepared to hear things like, "Fine, if you won't sleep with me, I'll give the part to so-and-so." Or, "I know you're only 23 but you 'read' too old for this part." Or, simply, "Next." But once they've got it (fame), it's very hard to let go. If you've been treated like sovereign royalty for some piddly little rom-com that later generated a measly box office return, you will become SO yesterday in the Biz. Yet, you'll do anything to stay in the game. Plus, if you like the same sex, you're gonna need a beard. So, unless you're Meryl Streep, be prepared to drop trou, pick up a beard, and, like you say, eventually end up on the boards off broadway.

It sounds horrid but still, I'd send my mother down the river just for one little chance!!

Oh, my. Has Oscar mania got you down?