Top 100 Quotes About Show Business
#1. Of course in show business there are two ways to play it and I am not politically correct so I am not going to get endorsements or anything like that.
Artie Lange
#2. It's a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that's what it takes to be in show business.
Donny Osmond
#3. I've always been pretty levelheaded. In show business, you need to have a certain internal stability.
Annette Bening
#4. So there's a cloud of rage around me, but being an artist kind of changes that. No matter what you thought coming in, what ignorant thing you believed, you're in show business for two years, you're like, "OK, I was wrong." It's hard to be mad at any particular group of people when you're an artist.
Chris Rock
#5. I was lucky. I always had really great friends in my personal life, people always just knew who I was. It wasn't until I was in show business where that sort of changed or shifted at first. I have always had a great support network. I have had a lot of really wonderful, close friends.
Margaret Cho
#6. When I came back into show business in '88 after spending 20-odd years in the civil service, it wasn't planned.
Pete Best
#7. I'm not all that enthralled by show business, and I'm not that much of a highbrow.
Dick Cavett
#8. In my heart and soul, I always knew that I wanted to be in show business.
Portia Doubleday
#9. Well, we're in show business, and I have been making a living in this business a long time and inevitably it means taking what it is that you've done and hopefully you're showing it to a lot of people who like it.
Walter Hill
#10. I'm very happy to be employed. I always contend that in show business that if you're employed, then you're successful.
Lance Burton
#11. I understand that show business people can wear the public a bit thin when it comes to politics. I know they wear me thin.
Clint Howard
#12. I'm from New York; I've been in show business all my life. I'm a wild and crazy gal, yet I always play these soft, warm, loving earth mothers. It's a pain in the butt. I'm a femme fatale!
Bonnie Bedelia
#13. In show business the saying seems too often true: it isn't enough to succeed; someone else must fail.
Gene Tierney
#14. I never wanted to be in the show business. I wanted to do special effects.
Emraan Hashmi
#15. I must be the only person of my age who doesn't have a bloody gong. They are so common in show business.
Janet Street-Porter
#16. I made the decision to quit show business. Give up the skintight dresses and manicured smiles. The false concern over sentimental lyrics. I would never again work to make people smile inanely and would take on the responsibility of making them think.
Maya Angelou
#17. When I do something, I do it all the way. I've been in show business so many years. I've achieved a lot of things.
Celine Dion
#18. In Hollywood they say there's no business like show business. In the hood they say there's no business like ho' business.
Curtis Jackson
#19. Julianne Moore and Michael Keaton began in 1980s soap operas and 1970s sitcoms, respectively, such ancient history by show business standards that you need carbon dating to measure their careers.
Steve Erickson
#20. I was a weirdo to want to be in show business. Most kids wanted to be teachers or nurses.
Nell Carter
#21. A lot of my close friends are nothing to do with show business. But the people I've had relationships with, invariably, I've worked with. I think that's probably because I grew up in a family where we all worked together, so it's something I feel comfortable with.
Felicity Kendal
#22. Despite my confidence and self-belief, I've always wrestled with feelings of insecurity. To be honest, I think most people in show business are insecure.
Bobby Davro
#23. I don't like show business. I don't like the business. I love acting. I love this. I love talking to people.
Jeffrey Tambor
#24. Show business can be an addiction ... An audience would laugh at me one night, and I would chase that high for another three months.
Joan Rivers
#25. On a day-to-day basis, you get tired of waiting to be accepted. In show business, someone else has to say that you're good or that you're worth going to see or worth taping a show. There's a lot of pain here. There's a lot of pain inside. I'm a sad, crying-on-the-inside kind of clown.
Greg Giraldo
#26. Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
Tamara Tunie
#27. People are not impressed by watching interviewees cry. People recognize chat shows with personalities as the trivial things that they are. They're not designed to be deep. Quite frankly, people in show business don't stand up to in-depth scrutiny.
Terry Wogan
#28. I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theatre, I didn't even know there was a show business!
David Geffen
#29. I don't have any ego about it, but I find there's not a great work ethic in show business. A lot of people are in it to make money, and coming from stand-up, you have to work so hard because almost nothing works, and if you lose the audience for three minutes, you're dead.
Norm MacDonald
#30. True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.
Kent McCord
#31. Kids are brought into show business because they are cute and see truth and they're very bright. But there's a sense of doing it because you want the adults to be approving of you. You want to make them happy.
Anna Chlumsky
#32. I thought I was learning about show business. The more painful it was, the more important I thought the experience must be. Hating it, I convinced myself it must be invaluable.
Judy Holliday
#33. I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit.
Shirley Bassey
#34. To be successful in show business, all you need are 50 good breaks.
Walter Matthau
#35. Politics is just show business for ugly people.
Jay Leno
#36. Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.
Taylor Hackford
#37. Show business imposes its own strict temporality: no matter how many CDs or DVDs we own, it would still have been better to have been there, to have seen the living performers in the richness of their being and to have participated, however briefly, in the glory of their performance.
Larry McMurtry
#38. I'm very leery of show business, having been in Los Angeles for the last 10 years. Buzz is a dangerous thing that I've heard applied to a lot of people that I've since not heard of again.
Greg Kinnear
#39. Its called show business, not show art.
Jean Seberg
#40. The theatre show-biz types don't change much, no matter what era we're in. The question of how you balance being in show business with your personal life isn't very different.
Scott Ellis
#41. There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.
Billie Holiday
#42. For the most part, comedy is the only fair part of show business.
Chris Rock
#43. In my opinion, life is more important than show business.
Penny Marshall
#44. People who go into show business are screwed up.
Craig Kilborn
#46. I'm sure some people might be offended by that, but this is my feeling about show business. It's not all about pure talent. There are certain people who command a stage because they look good ,like me.
Howard Stern
#47. I'm not even worried about settling down. I think it's way too early. I'm 25 and I'm in show business. I mean, if things go well, my wife hasn't even been born yet.
Arj Barker
#48. Over 55,000 people saw the Beatles at Shea Stadium. We took $304,000 - the greatest gross ever in the history of show business!
Sid Bernstein
#49. I loved everything about show business, meeting the stars, the whole ambience. I was living every young kid's dream. I was told a pop singer's life was three years, but I was still making money seven years later.
Cilla Black
#50. Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offered to you.
Tommy Steele
#51. If there's anything in life you consider worthwhile achieving - go for it. I was told many times to forget show business - I had nothing going for me. But I pursued it, anyway. Voila!
Isabel Sanford
#52. I taught myself computer. Then Macintosh came along, and it became a really bad addiction. If I wasn't in show business, I'd have pocket protectors growing out of my chest. I do everything on it. It's kinda sick.
Jeff Dunham
#53. Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority.
Jim Carrey
#54. I do see things that are funny on the net. I Googled myself the other day and found out that I was worth $250m, and that I was the highest-paid guy in show business! I wish so hard it was true. It is, of course, the complete opposite. I'm neither rich nor do I make a lot of money.
David Crosby
#56. I stayed in show business to pay for my animal business.
Betty White
#57. I'm oddly not competitive. What I love about show business is there is a home for everyone.
Jay Mohr
#58. I was born and raised to entertain other people. I've heard laughter and applause and known a lot of sorrow. Everything about me is based on show business - I think it will bring me happiness. I hope so.
Donald O'Connor
#59. We're not show-business people. We have a life.
Patti LuPone
#60. Get out of show business. Its the best advice I ever got, because Im so stubborn that if someone would tell me that, I would stay in it to the bitter end.
Walter Matthau
#61. When I was a child, life felt so slow because all I wanted to do was get into show business. Each day seemed like a year, but when you get older, years pass like minutes. I wish there was a tape recorder where we could just slow our lives down.
Bruce Forsyth
#62. People always say, well, how do you get through show business? How do you swim the waters? And how do you survive and all that? I had a very solid method, and that is team up with ambitious partners.
Garry Marshall
#63. The only thing harder than leaving show business is coming back.
Dave Chappelle
#64. Either black people end up being the best in sports, or else it's show business. You know, we all got rhythm.
Diana Ross
#65. I've had 79 to 80 years of show business. I started when I was 5 with a man called Tom Mix. I didn't have time to go to school because I was in silent movies, I was in radio, I was in burlesque, I worked with the circus. I'm all show business!
George Sidney
#66. I want to see the numbers that prove that show-business marriages are any less successful than other marriages. It's just very public when they fail.
Kevin Bacon
#67. There's no one I trust in show business more than Sabrina Wind. She's my eyes and ears when I can't be there. She weighs in on everything, from scripts to sets to advertising.
Marc Cherry
#68. I've been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act.
Kenny Baker
#69. I was 17, certainly by the time I was 19, I knew that show business was where I was going to end up, and I had my sights on being a director.
Brian Henson
#70. There are times in show business when you work so much you think you will pop your cork, and then suddenly you can't find any work.
Martha Reeves
#71. There's no job in show business that's harder than any other job outside show business.
Penn Jillette
#72. I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.
Jack Wild
#73. The Pope's entrance was stunning. Maybe the Catholics know about miracles, and maybe they know about saints, but they've never received enough credit for what they know about show business.
George Burns
#74. That's what's great about show business. It's escapism. You pay your five bucks to get in and sit there and you're in another world. Forget about the problems in the world. It's wonderful.
Michael Jackson
#75. I knew early in life that I wanted a show business career.
Irene Cara
#76. Bob Hope was an entertainment colossus, shrewd and influential well beyond show business. Richard Zoglin's biography captures it all
the public and private Hope.
Tom Brokaw
#77. Show business is made up of disappointments, and it's through life's disappointments that you grow.
Minnie Pearl
#78. I know it's going to sound cheesy, but I love show business. I love doing comedy, I love that I get to do all this with my friends.
Nick Kroll
#79. The Beatles looked like they were in show business, and that was the important thing. And the important thing for the Rolling Stones was to look as if they were not.
Andrew Loog Oldham
#80. When you're a child, no matter if you're doing show business or sports or school or anything, you just want to make the adults happy.
Anna Chlumsky
#81. I just wanted to be a good comic and had no sense of show business, but at some point you want the opportunity to write a show about your life.
Marc Maron
#82. I am constantly asked why I never made other films after 'There's No Business Like Show Business,' the answer is I was never asked.
Johnnie Ray
#83. I have received more fulfillment and adulation than I would ever know what to do with in terms of show business.
Maria Bamford
#84. But this is called show business, not show family.
Alice Barrett
#85. I work in show business - there's nothing that shocks me anymore!
Thomas Gibson
#86. I don't mean to sound - I don't want it to come out funny, but I don't like show business. I love - I love acting in films. I love it.
Gene Wilder
#87. My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one.
Marvin Hamlisch
#88. At home, we don't listen to our music-we listen to other people's music. It keeps you attached to the show business world.
Celine Dion
#89. If you are going to survive in business, show business or any business, then you have to be bold.
Rebecca Ferguson
#90. The minute you start the process of deciding to make a film and you're communicating that vision to anyone, you're in the process of selling. If you don't understand that, you're not in show business. You're just not.
Peter Guber
#91. There's nothing that I love to do more than act and I feel really lucky to be in the position that I'm in, being able to do it as my job! If I ever do anything other than act, it will be in show business.
Sophia Bush
#92. In the history of show business, there probably never was a straighter straight man than banana-yellow Bert, the paper clip collector and pigeon fancier.
Michael Davis
#94. ...the deliberate application of the techniques of theater to politics, religion, education, literature, commerce, warfare, crime, everything, has converted them into branches of show business, where the overriding objective is getting and satisfying an audience.
Neal Gabler
#95. Even though I was in close proximity to everything, it never really dawned on me to pursue a career in show business.
Vicki Lawrence
#96. Never mind the transience of show business and popularity. When we hear Ray Charles, we go, 'That's a great singer.' You don't need a reporter or a writer to tell us. Good is good and it should shine through the years.
Art Garfunkel
#97. I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business.
Celine Dion
#98. My dad's a lighting director. Growing up in Hollywood, I was around the entertainment industry all the time. I knew I'd end up in show business in some capacity, eventually.
Meghan Markle
#99. I wanted to be a model; I wanted to be a nurse; I wanted to be so many things, almost anything but being part of show business.
Shirley Bassey
#100. When I'm asked how to succeed in show business, I always say I haven't the foggiest.
Ethel Merman
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