Daily Inspiration Quote by Bob Fosse

Bob Fosse’s line lands like a shrug with a knife in it: a bleakly funny acknowledgement that power in show business comes with a built-in dating pool. It’s not a romantic observation so much as an industry memo. Directors, especially in Fosse’s era, sit at the choke point of opportunity. They greenlight roles, shape careers, and control the room. “Never in short supply” turns intimacy into inventory, implying girlfriends are less relationships than a resource that arrives automatically once you hold the title.

The subtext is transactional and gendered. Fosse isn’t pretending everyone is equally free in this marketplace; he’s pointing at an imbalance so normal it can be tossed off as a joke. The humor works because it’s both self-indictment and boast, a classic Fosse double move: he’s confessing to the machinery while still benefiting from it. That tension is part of his public mythology, the choreographer-director whose work eroticized control and whose personal life blurred artistry with appetite.

Context matters. Fosse came up in mid-century Broadway and Hollywood, worlds where professional gatekeeping and private access routinely overlapped. Long before today’s language of “power dynamics” and “consent culture” went mainstream, the hierarchy was an open secret. His sentence is short, punchy, and cynical because the system doesn’t require explanation; it requires recognition. It’s a line that feels like backstage wisdom, and that’s what makes it sting: the casualness suggests this isn’t scandalous behavior, it’s just how the room is arranged.