Show business Quotes · Page 11

I'm not good at doing show business; I'm a theatre person. I don't reveal anything about my life.

— Robert Lepage

I know it's going to sound cheesy, but I love show business. I love doing comedy, I love that I get to…

— Nick Kroll

I did win [on a contest]. And that started me on a new path, and into show business.

— Debbie Reynolds

I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier,…

— Christopher Walken

My theory has always been that everyone in show business is there because they were deprived of some attention as a child.

— Ray Romano

I didn't learn fire-eating to conquer my fears. I learned fire-eating because I desperately wanted to be in show business.

— Penn Jillette

I said, to hell with the whole thing, to hell with show business. I'm gonna make a new life for myself, and…

— Tommy Kirk

I believe most people don't go into show business unless they've been majorly unloved as a child.

— Ryan Murphy

My mother was not a show business mother but I saw plenty of those mothers. If the kid didn't get the audition,…

— Leslie Uggams

I'm a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few…

— Diana Ross

When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that…

— Ed Helms

I could've always worked shows, clubs, Las Vegas and Atlantic City, but I was successful in business ventures, and things weren't happening…

— Gabe Kaplan

The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent,…

— Danica McKellar

I was the worst bricklayer in the world. I can show you buildings I worked on - they're a hazard. I closed…

— Pat Cooper

I think, there were probably problems with show business where producers and directors would try to get the writing credit also. So…

— Judd Apatow

There's something about that idea of looking up and hoping, and thinking, 'I'm good.' Some things, like show business, are absolutely subjective.…

— Christopher Guest

One of the reasons I like to teach is that I like to pass things on. That's an unspoken law of show…

— Ann Reinking

I'd moved to L.A. with my mother when I was 17 or 18. She loved show business and I was young enough…

— Sherilyn Fenn

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

There is an old show business saying which warns never to work with animals or children, but nobody prepared me for Molly…

— Prince Charles

In 40-odd years in show business, some years I could do no wrong, and some years I could do nothing right. Show…

— Patsy Kelly

I did say to myself one day, 'I'd love to be a Jewish comedian,' but that's my only memory with any connection…

— Paul Morrissey

I was a theatrical kid, but my parents were overprotective. When I expressed interest in show business, they shut it down.

— Wendi McLendon-Covey

Im happy that I was able to experience a normal life besides show business, because it gives you something to draw from.

— Ashley Tisdale

Will Ferrell is a dangerous man. If he thinks you're in his way in show business, he will crack your head open.…

— Tina Fey

“There just seems to be too much violence everywhere, even the news can't help break now and then on TV”

— Nikhil Sharda

Of course in show business there are two ways to play it and I am not politically correct so I am not…

— Artie Lange

I'm oddly not competitive. What I love about show business is there is a home for everyone.

— Jay Mohr

The occupational hazard of making a spectacle of yourself, over the long haul, is that at some point you buy a ticket…

— Thomas McGuane

I don't know what my life would have been like if I'd never gotten into show business.

— Diana Ross

I didn't know anybody in show business, and I never thought it was the path I'd go down. I was hoping it…

— D. B. Sweeney

Get out of show business. Its the best advice I ever got, because Im so stubborn that if someone would tell me…

— Walter Matthau

No one in my family is in show business, unless you count dog shows as show business.

— Rebel Wilson

I think in show business, it's really kind of easy to perpetuate that feeling of, like, Oh, I don't measure up. Or…

— Molly Shannon

Show business is like Champagne. You'll appreciate it more if you don't drink it everyday

— Jay Leno

Every actor wants to direct and produce, but I made a conscious decision when I was in college to understand the 'business'…

— Theodore Bikel

When all of your friends are getting pregnant, you start thinking about it. But for Amy and I, show business is our…

— Will Arnett

They say that politics is show business for ugly people, but as I always crack, what would I know about that? I…

— George Galloway

I think there is certainly luck and fate involved in any career of any kind. In show business, maybe it's even more…

— Gary Cole

The literary aspect of the film business excites me, but show business in general doesn't take any mental giant.

— Larry Wilcox