Show business Quotes · Page 14

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

The first time that I ever tried standup, which is how I found a way into show business, I did what I…

— Julio Torres

Show business comes with wonderfully long vacations, like the life of a college professor.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

We need a president who realizes that there's no government business in show business.

— Penn Jillette

I have accomplished my childhood dream: to be in show business. Everybody should be so lucky to have their dreams come true.…

— Dick Clark

It's one of the old show business axioms. No matter how successful you've been, there's always a younger and sexier seal coming…

— George Burns

I've been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act.

— Kenny Baker

We're against hypocrisy, lies, bigotry, show business, insincerity, phonies, and fakers.

— Ian Brown

I couldn't do anything. I'd work in a department store for a couple of weeks, but I couldn't hack it. I couldn't…

— Helen Reddy

If there's anything in life you consider worthwhile achieving - go for it. I was told many times to forget show business…

— Isabel Sanford

I don't read anything about my movies before or after I do films, or any part of show business. I think that…

— Christopher Guest

This is show business. I know that winning is super important and a gameplan is super important, but at some point you…

— Carlos Condit

My history in show business spans over a quarter of a century, and I have seen many people in the industry struggle…

— Margaret Cho

Show business is like a bumpy bus ride. Sometimes you find yourself temporarily juggled out of your seat and holding onto a…

— Cliff Robertson

It was only after I'd had some injuries that I basically retired from the performing side of show business and then began…

— Phyllis Smith

“The best business people are show people, as are the most effective educators and the most compassionate physicians. Whether consciously or not,…

— Bruce Kasanoff

I would have never seen any thing outside of Norwood, Ohio, if it hadn't been for show business.

— Vera-Ellen

When I do something, I do it all the way. I've been in show business so many years. I've achieved a lot…

— Celine Dion

I've always got the road. Stand-up makes you so autonomous and self-sufficient that it really helps with that part of show business.

— Louis C. K

I still have to work paycheck to paycheck. Being in show business doesn't indicate that you're a 'success,' in my opinion.

— Jen Kirkman

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

Bob Hope was an entertainment colossus, shrewd and influential well beyond show business. Richard Zoglin's biography captures it all--the public and private…

— Tom Brokaw

I was a weirdo to want to be in show business. Most kids wanted to be teachers or nurses.

— Nell Carter

And, you know, when you are a kid, everybody wants to be an actor. I think that everybody wants to be in…

— Brent Spiner

I wanted to entertain so badly that I kept at it until I was good. I just browbeat my way into show…

— Mel Brooks

I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my…

— Andy Gibb

The reality of show business - and I suppose a lot of businesses, but specifically show business - is that it is…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

I have no ego. There is no way you can have a big ego and survive in this [show]business. You can't learn…

— Jennifer Lopez

All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel ... and that's what I've been doing…

— Count Basie

The essence of show business is, if you see a tight-rope walker go across a tight rope, everybody claps. But, if you…

— T Bone Burnett

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell…

— Ronald Reagan

There's no job in show business that's harder than any other job outside show business.

— Penn Jillette

I've been famous for years through my entertainment programs, through my show business activities and my business.

— Ksenia Sobchak

I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gather behind you and help you…

— Wally George

That's ended, that's over. I want you to meet my pimps. I thought, I'm a show-business ho already, so I might as…

— Bill Maher

I was so happy I didn't have to work that night. That was the truth, because show business is about the hardest…

— Elaine Stritch

I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for…

— Roy Rogers

I'm in show business, and I'm an entertainer, but I also see myself as an artist doing social and spiritual work.

— India Arie

If you get outside the world of show business and its satellites, there's a whole world of car nuts in the Los…

— P. J. O'Rourke

It's a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that's what it takes to be…

— Donny Osmond