Show business Quotes · Page 12

Either black people end up being the best in sports, or else it's show business. You know, we all got rhythm.

— Diana Ross

You and I and everybody in show business and the entertainment industry fly by the seat of our pants. We don't know…

— William Shatner

No matter what the role, you're trying to do the impossible - make a living in show business.

— Peter Gallagher

I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.

— Ricky Jay

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

I tried to look presentable for a show, but not for sexual attraction. It was strictly for show business.

— Little Richard

I'd rather be a flop at show business than to be a success at something I didn't like.

— George Burns

Even though I was in close proximity to everything, it never really dawned on me to pursue a career in show business.

— Vicki Lawrence

My eyes opened, and the first thing I thought of when I could put thoughts together was I want to be in…

— Joan Rivers

Timing and pace are important in any film, whether it be comedy or drama. And how better to learn the fundamentals of…

— Charles Walters

Like everybody in show business, you think you're going to wake up one day, and it's all going to be taken away…

— Rod Stewart

I'm not a big believer in slavishly following research. It's one of the things that's wrong with television is that if you…

— Grant Tinker

Sure, if I had a choice I'd really prefer Jackie at home, waiting for me with a hot meal on the table.…

— Ken Berry

All kids love to get dirty, but if I wandered into the garage, my father would say: 'Son, you're not going to…

— Bruce Forsyth

There's so much, I guess I want to say, nonsense about show business now. Because of reality television. I don't get this,…

— Lorna Luft

When people ask me, ‘how do you make it in show business,’ or whatever, what I always tell them — and nobody…

— Steve Martin

If you are going to survive in business, show business or any business, then you have to be bold.

— Rebecca Ferguson

Oh, when I was a kid in show business I was poor. I used to go to orgies to eat the grapes.

— Rodney Dangerfield

Probably from, like, my freshman year of high school, I had this desire to perform and also be involved in the show…

— David A. R. White

I'm in a whole different part of show business. I'm not even part of Shakespeare in Love.

— Eddie Murphy

If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.

— Brent Spiner

I would rather die than have my fans see me without a pair of heels on. And that's show business.

— Lady Gaga

The circus comes as close to being the world in microcosm as anything I know; in a way, it puts all the…

— E. B. White

I'm not in show business; I'm in the communications business. That's what it's about for me.

— Richie Havens

I began my show business career playing violin in San Francisco at the corner of Market and Taylor. I understand that there…

— Jack Benny

People get sucked into being so show-bizy. I mean this is show biz, but I just can't do anything that's not in…

— Kim Shattuck

People shouldn't get into show business because they want to become stars or become rich; they should get into it because they…

— Orson Bean

You can still have a very productive, crime-free life when you're growing up in show business.

— Fred Savage

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…

— Jean Seberg

Most people that work in [show] business, if they're not gypsies by nature, become gypsies, just because of the reality of this…

— Charlie Hunnam

Around 1950, I quit and went into the appliance business. But even then I was still in show business.

— Jackie Coogan

Back In 1982, I started in show business with my brothers. We started a break dancing group.

— Dante Basco

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…

— Bob Hope

I have a suspicion that the definition of "crazy" in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one…

— Tina Fey

The big thing I learned from Chris Rock was not to be a victim of show business. Don't let show business push…

— W. Kamau Bell

I secretly nurtured the idea of being in show business but was always terrified of it. I had every fear you could…

— Richard Belzer

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

Stand-up don't get no respect - it's the hardest thing to do in show business. You don't have no band and there's…

— Tracy Morgan

When I graduated from college I thought I was over with show business and was pursuing other things.

— Anna Chlumsky

If politics is like show business, then the idea is not to pursue excellence, clarity or honesty but to appear as if…

— Neil Postman