Top 100 Quotes About Show Business
#1. If you are a musician and you don't show any interest on the business level then you are actually vulnerable and people will rip you off. They will sweet talk you into anything.
Michael Schenker
#2. Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.
Terence McKenna
#4. What happened was, my parents after 'Circus Boy' decided to take me out of show business for two years to go back to normal school. It was the smartest thing they ever did.
Micky Dolenz
#5. The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.
Frank Miller
#6. That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life.
Barbara Mandrell
#7. I wanted to be in show business, and I was funny.
Tom Smothers
#8. If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.
Brent Spiner
#9. If politics is like show business, then the idea is not to pursue excellence, clarity or honesty but to appear as if you are, which is another matter altogether.
Neil Postman
#10. Years ago I wanted to buy an apartment in New York City. I was a single female - I had gone through my divorce - I had three children, I was in show business and black. It was, like, impossible.
Diana Ross
#11. I have shared my whole life. My private and my show business life. It helps me actually to feel my songs and to go on with my dreams.
Celine Dion
#12. I watch a TV show called 'Shark Tank.' It's one of my favorite TV shows. It's basically self-made millionaires who have either come up with their own business or clothing ... I came up with the idea of designing clothes.
Jacob Dalton
#13. It's easier to get on show business, the hard part is to maintain. Nobody stays famous forever.
Chris Rock
#14. Magic is the oldest part of the show business profession. It can now be used as a forward-thinking tool to build a child's confidence. It has been an amazing part in many entertainers' lives, including Steve Martin and the late Johnny Carson.
Criss Angel
#15. In show business, never underestimate the power of saying "no".
Doc Brown
#16. You know, l don't kid myself about the show. If it doesn't get ratings, it's off. Look, if I came up with the cure for cancer and it didn't get ratings, they wouldn't put it on. That's how vicious that business is.
Donald Trump
#17. Going to New York to do whatever - show business - it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the big city and meet all kinds of different people and maybe be famous. It was just exciting. So I wasn't scared.
January Jones
#18. Brains are an asset, if you hide them.
Mae West
#19. Don't thank your parents. If you were raised in a nurturing environment, you wouldn't be in show business. Don't say, 'Wow, this is heavy.' Of course it's heavy. It contains the shattered dreams of four other people.
Conan O'Brien
#20. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn.
Joss Whedon
#21. You can't be a kid in show business. You will not survive.
Vanessa Hudgens
#22. I have to take time occasionally to get away from the pressures of this business. If I don't, I think I would get stale, and that would show in my music.
Andy Gibb
#23. America is a nation of 270 million people: 100 million of them are gangsters, another 100 million are hustlers, 50 million are complete lunatics, and every single one of us is secretly in show business. Isn't that fabulous?
Tom Robbins
#24. I heard a quote once in a documentary about a band that said you're better off owning everything 100 percent and selling 20,000 copies of an album than signing with a record company and selling a million copies. There has never been a truer statement about show business than that.
Bill Burr
#25. These women whose antics we smirk at good-naturedly in the pap-traps put themselves out there at least partly on their beauty; they are in showbiz, and showing what they've got is part of their business as much as it is for male show-ponies from the Chippendales to George Clooney.
Julie Burchill
#26. Come to West Virginia and we'll show you how to live ... how to treat people. We're open for business. West Virginia is truly on the move.
Joe Manchin
#27. Before Disney, I did other shows so I was aware of the business. They're all the same in that they're a professional environment. The only difference between a Disney show and other network shows are in the age of the actors you're working with and the age of the intended audience.
David Henrie
#28. Spontaneity is such an entertaining facet of show business.
Chuck Barris
#29. Virtually every problem that would show up in your business can be traced back to communications; somebody didn't talk to somebody about something.
David Allen
#30. All my shows are great. Some of them are bad. But they are all great.
Michael Grade
#31. I wrote a little autobiography about how luck has to do with everything. It's called 'My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business.' A publisher came to me and said, 'Write a book,' so I did. I wanted to call it 'Everybody Else Has Got a Book.'
Dick Van Dyke
#32. I'm a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I've really had to decide what's important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business.
Diana Ross
#33. I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business - I want to see someone so hungry that they eat somebody else's foot.
Albert Brooks
#34. I'm in show business ... I want to hang out with Janet Jackson, not Jesse Jackson.
Chris Rock
#35. Will Ferrell is a dangerous man. If he thinks you're in his way in show business, he will crack your head open. He's the Jeff Gillooly of comedy.
Tina Fey
#36. I am very intense. I can't help it. That's the way I am. You can't be in this business without being intense. The pressure and tension get to you; it can't help but show on you.
Irene Cara
#37. We have boys now, and men, in the rock and roll business and all the show business, who have this reaction on women. They scream. They yell. They do all sorts of wild things.
Minnie Pearl
#38. I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.
Garry Shandling
#39. There's show and there's business. Business is a whole other beat.
Omar Epps
#40. I have that working-class show-business blood coursing through my veins.
Jenny Lewis
#41. I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.
Carol Burnett
#42. I learned some invaluable lessons in Nashville that apply to both farming and show business: Do not corner something you know is meaner than you; keep skunks of all kinds at a distance; if you forgive your enemies, it messes up their heads.
Willie Nelson
#43. There are some people in show business who are proud of the number of marriages they've had.
Gerry Anderson
#44. You still have that competitive thing where you want to try to make hits. That won't go away, unless the mayor of show business says my time's up.
Will Ferrell
#45. History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.
James Thurber
#46. Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business.
Jeff Bridges
#47. No one in my family is in show business, unless you count dog shows as show business.
Rebel Wilson
#48. I'd rather clean my toilet than go to a show-business party.
Shania Twain
#49. If someone shows promise in a trade, why not give them practical business advice, teach them how to handle money, show them the ways they can start their own business, and help them to become fully trained?
Erin Osborne
#50. Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.
Don Rickles
#51. Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.
Carroll O'Connor
#52. My father was a journalist for 50 years in Leeds and Fleet Street. I thought about a career in business to show I could do something different, but the reaction among prospective employers was, shall we say, underwhelming.
Lionel Barber
#53. 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.
Marc Maron
#54. It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.
Agnes Repplier
#55. I said, to hell with the whole thing, to hell with show business. I'm gonna make a new life for myself, and I got off drugs, completely kicked all that stuff.
Tommy Kirk
#56. There's a very apt saying in show business: "If you don't go over budget in Paris, you're either very rich or very sick. "
Bob Hope
#57. If you're a car salesman, and someone says "This is a terrible car, I'm not buying it," it doesn't mean they hate you. They just don't like your product. I think that's a mistake a lot of people in show business make.. they're so tied to their act they take everything personally.
Jay Leno
#58. I'm in love with everything about show business. The only thing that ever came easy to me in life has been acting.
Carolyn Jones
#59. On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married.
Scott Bakula
#60. All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel ... and that's what I've been doing all my life.
Count Basie
#61. I had tremendous success in show business - star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 'The Apprentice' was one of the most successful shows.
Donald Trump
#62. It's all been a bad joke that just ran out of control. I got into food for fun but the business got a mind of its own. Now - my good Lord - look where it has gotten me. My products are on supermarket shelves, in cinemas, in the theater. And they say show business is odd.
Paul Newman
#63. My history in show business spans over a quarter of a century, and I have seen many people in the industry struggle with coming out, only to find much more success after they finally did.
Margaret Cho
#64. I'm in this business, man, and I honestly don't know anything about show business at all. I don't know how it works.
Bobby Lee
#65. I love when I am around a veteran in [show] business. Because I can dig and ask questions, and find out the "who" and "what" of it all.
Jill Scott
#66. I love show business. I wake up every morning and kiss it.
Richard Pryor
#67. Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.
P. J. O'Rourke
#68. In what other business can a guy my age drink martinis, smoke cigars and sing? I think all people who retire ought to go into show business. I've been retired all my life.
George Burns
#69. I guess show business is a lot like baseball: "Wait until next year!" You just never know. Some of the shittiest shows I've ever seen run forever, and some of the best things never get a chance.
Kurt Fuller
#70. My theory has always been that everyone in show business is there because they were deprived of some attention as a child.
Ray Romano
#71. Ronald Reagan came from show business. His idea of how the government should help the homeless was like your agent. "We'll try to get you work. But don't bug us about it."
Bill Maher
#72. When all of your friends are getting pregnant, you start thinking about it. But for Amy and I, show business is our baby.
Will Arnett
#73. It is a game before a product, a sport before a market, a show before a business.
Michel Patini
#74. My father was adamant in his disapproval of my interest in show business.
Paul Lynde
#76. There is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they where working in show business.
Brent Spiner
#77. I was never one to seek out the spotlight. I am kind of a private person, so I don't miss that part of show business at all.
Angela Cartwright
#78. You don't have to prove confidence; when you have it, it'll show.
Real confidence is quiet, tactful, civil, and humble.
Rosalinda Oropeza Randall
#79. Intellectually secure people do not need to show anyone how smart they are. They are empirical and seek truth. Intellectually insecure people need to show everyone how smart they are. They are egotistical and seek triumph.
Kevin Ashton
#80. Sitcoms are what got me excited about show business.
Jen Kirkman
#81. There was one path across Boston Commons that a young man must not ask a young woman to take unless he meant business. Which path was that? she asked Holmes. "Ah," she remembered the elderly doctor saying, "if I were only fifty years younger I would show you.
Katherine Paterson
#82. Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor.
Christopher Walken
#83. I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
Wanda Sykes
#84. I'm an actress. To be honest, it's a very awkward business. It's one of those things where it's almost like a first date. There's a way you want to come across. You want to show your goods. The truth starts to slip out sometimes.
Eva Mendes
#85. Hosting a show, even a talk show or a game show, there's so much business you have to conduct. There's so much guiding you have to do.
Michael Ian Black
#86. It is the leader's job to lead by example and enforce the values and the behaviors to set the culture for any company or work group. Show me a company in rapid decline, and I will show you someone in charge who doesn't give a _.
Beth Ramsay
#87. Probably from, like, my freshman year of high school, I had this desire to perform and also be involved in the show business industry.
David A.R. White
#88. I was going to dine at the television company's expense with one of the most beautiful women in show business and some television producer with an inferiority complex. In my experience, there's always a price.
V.T. Davy
#89. I didn't know anybody in show business, and I never thought it was the path I'd go down. I was hoping it was sports, like so many kids.
D. B. Sweeney
#90. Being fired from a show - being fired in any way, in any instance, any business - is just hard.
Kathleen Rose Perkins
#91. Whether we look at capitalism, taxes, business, or government, the data show a clear and consistent pattern: 70 percent of Americans support the free enterprise system and are unsupportive of big government.
Arthur C. Brooks
#92. I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.
Sydney Pollack
#93. While I appreciated the educational advantages I enjoyed in the school and was proud of what I could show in mental culture, I had an earnest desire for something more than a mere business education ... I desired to study for a profession, and this prompted me to leave my native state.
Hiram Rhodes Revels
#94. I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.
Billy Sunday
#95. There is indeed a business like show business. It's the news.
Paul Krassner
#96. Show business is like a bumpy bus ride. Sometimes you find yourself temporarily juggled out of your seat and holding onto a strap. But the main idea is to hang in there and not be shoved out the door.
Cliff Robertson
#97. I'm not sure if I've learned anything from show business. Life in general has taught me if you're kind to people, everything gets easier. Being a decent person really smoothes the way for you and everyone else.
Alan Arkin
#98. I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.
Ricky Jay
#99. When I was forty, I was getting divorced, living in a low-class, dirty hotel in New York. My mother was dying of cancer. I owed $20,000. That was about the lowest. I came back to show business, and I couldn't get a job. I was turned down by every small-time agent in New York.
Rodney Dangerfield
#100. Stand-up comedy is like the lowest medium in all of show business in levels of respect.
Chris Rock
