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It's important in show business to have friends who understand the cut and thrust of everyday working life and the constant rejection.
Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person.
I was excited to hear others talking of God. Most people in show business have some strong spirituality but don't talk about it openly.
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.
The most important thing I learned from Dad about show business was never take myself seriously and never stop having fun with my craft.
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.
My father had a hotel, and people in show business used to stay there. He loved peformers and entertainment, and I grew up knowing that.
What's so wonderful about football and business and show business is that every time I start thinking I'm special, I get knocked on my ass.
I just think my life's been really blessed, because being in show business, I've met wonderful people, and I've traveled all over the world.
I never thought much about success early on. I only thought about being a comedian - or just being in show business, is really more accurate.
Yeah, there was a six-year period where I was pretty much done with show business. During college and then for about two years after college.
It's true that in show business, a lot of times a producer will just not ever be there, not even be aware that a show is renewed or canceled.
I've always been a good mother, but I've always been in show business, and I've been on stage, and I don't bake cookies and I don't stay home.
Listen, even if you go wild, I like class. Everybody in show business never should forget that there is a line, and that you should have class.
The thing about people from Chicago and the Northwest suburbs is that they're very cocky. I think that serves us well in the show business world.
To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face.
I was disillusioned by Hollywood at the time, but now I've come to accept that's just the way things are: it's called show business, not show art.
America is so much more 'show business.' For instance, you have Barack Obama. We have Fredrik Reinfeldt. Everyone in the world knows Barack Obama!
You and I and everybody in show business and the entertainment industry fly by the seat of our pants. We don't know quite what is going to happen.
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.
By the time I was ready for college, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I think I secretly wanted a show business career, but I was suppressing it.
I guess I've never really been aggressive, although almost everybody else in show business fights and gouges and knees to get where they want to be.
The kids don't really have any part of my television life. Fortunately, there aren't many times when show business intrudes on our family existence.
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.
I have accomplished my childhood dream: to be in show business. Everybody should be so lucky to have their dreams come true. I've been truly blessed.
James Brown was the Monday-to-Friday guy. He was the hardest man in show business. He was like your dad and your uncle: He showed up, and he hit hard.
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.
I started standup at age nineteen. I decided that the only way I was going to try show business as a career was if I could make total strangers laugh.
I pride myself on being down-to-earth. I’m from the Midwest. People who go into show business are screwed up. I romanticized about having a serene life.
I was always in show business but in many ways was not really of show business. I didn't move in show business circles, particularly, still don't do it.
That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life.
One of the main destructive forces within our family has been these runaway egos. I think if you look at any show business family, that struggle exists.
My dad was the cause of me being in show business. He was not only in poetry but in acting a bit. He was Mordecai in the play 'A Dream of Queen Esther.'
I consider myself to be more real-sized than most of the actresses in California and in show business. They're very small. They're like miniature people.
Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me.
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.
I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.
I was studying pre-med at UCLA when I decided show business was for me, and the best way to make it was in music. I had just one problem. I was tone deaf.
I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I didn't think of it as being tough and things like that.
The kind of money that show business will pay you, unless you need to have shoes made of diamonds, you can actually put it in the bank and sort of be okay.
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.
I think the fact that I was raised in show business, in New York City, in the '50s, that's affected my personality to the point that I'm a little different.
People shouldn't get into show business because they want to become stars or become rich; they should get into it because they can't help but put on a show.
I've stated that it's possible the only reason I'm in show business is that I have such a strange, particular head of hair. That, and I can grow a red beard.
I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents. I've always known what is and isn't reality.
I hope, what I hope the most is to be more successful as a mother than in show business, because to be a mother is the most difficult I will ever have to do.
The reality of show business - and I suppose a lot of businesses, but specifically show business - is that it is this business of 'no's.' It's mostly 'no's.'
I'm fortunate that I'm employed. And if you're in show business, of course, every night you go to bed and go, oh my god, tomorrow I'll never, ever work again.
I secretly nurtured the idea of being in show business but was always terrified of it. I had every fear you could possibly imagine associated with performing.
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.