A friend of mine once asked how to make it in show business and I said "Be so good that they can't… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
My parents weren't involved in show business, but my parents would show me. We'd watch old films in the house. Little film… — Alden Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Since I had children I have taken huge amounts of time off. In a way it's a really good thing, in this… — Naomi Watts Copy Share Image
I do have to say, there is this incredible benefit to being older. I never thought I'd say that. I've figured out… — Jennifer Coolidge Copy Share Image
I began painting well before I started doing comedy. In fact, when I came out of the war in 1946, I enrolled… — Jonathan Winters Copy Share Image
I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
If you're a car salesman, and someone says "This is a terrible car, I'm not buying it," it doesn't mean they hate… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
There is no business like show business, Irving Berlin once proclaimed, and thirty years ago he may have been right, but not… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
The press criticism made me feel at times like I was someone who had landed from outer space and, to my parents,… — Divine Copy Share Image
Fundamentally, the most important thing is to get the film made for me and to get as many people to see it… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
I had been asking the universe and God to send me a way for me to help me. Show business has been… — Louie Anderson Copy Share Image
I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles,… — Ed Helms Copy Share Image
I have a girlfriend, but I don't really want to talk about her. I won't name her. She isn't in show business,… — Luke Perry Copy Share Image
I was a 6-foot-tall 13-year-old who couldn't play basketball. I moved around all the time as a kid, and at each new… — Brad Garrett Copy Share Image
Well I've always said that fame and fortune - the two things that one seems to go after when they go into… — Dave Madden Copy Share Image
Nowadays it seems more and more like the 'business' in 'show business' is underlined, and there are campaigns, and it's all part… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
I was supposed to go to Northwestern and become a dental hygienist, get married, have babies. My father was very against me… — Lauren Tom Copy Share Image
“It's all been a bad joke that just ran out of control. I got into food for fun but the business got… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
Where I came from, the idea of going into show business was just ridiculous; in fact I didn't tell anybody because I… — Michelle Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
I haven't had to do anything outside of show business my whole life. I've never been a waiter. I've only worked and… — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
I was lucky. I always had really great friends in my personal life, people always just knew who I was. It wasn't… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
“Show business imposes its own strict temporality: no matter how many CDs or DVDs we own, it would still have been better… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
I think the fact that I grew up in show business had a real effect on my personality. If you were born… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
In show business, it takes 10 years to create an overnight success. You've heard that, right? But what you don't hear is… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
Show business has never been my everything. It's a means; it's not the end. It's a means to the end. I want… — Steve Guttenberg Copy Share Image
America is a nation of 270 million people: 100 million of them are gangsters, another 100 million are hustlers, 50 million are… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I think people are used to people in show business having a lot of hubris. I think I have a normal amount… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I was the class clown, you know, that kind of thing, and I gathered around me a group of guys who also… — Dick Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Heart is tied with a lot of controversies, a lot of heartbreaks in show business. With 'Love Marie' who I really am… — Heart Evangelista Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan came from show business. His idea of how the government should help the homeless was like your agent. "We'll try… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
You know when there's a star, like in show business, the star has her name in lights on the marquee! Right? And… — Babe Didrikson Zaharias Copy Share Image
No one would have picked me out in high school and said, 'This guy is going to be in show business.' I… — Jerry Springer Copy Share Image
The Deer Hunter is securely on my list of American movie events, by which I mean those films that aspired to the… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share Image
The average movie set is the least political arena on Earth. Nobody bothers talking about politics because, one, we all love the… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
One cannot forget that show business also deals with humans. Everything is not so superficial that this is rigged or planned. Sometimes… — Barun Sobti Copy Share Image
I think probably the most difficult challenge was just the climb and rise in show business because I went through my entire… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
So there's a cloud of rage around me, but being an artist kind of changes that. No matter what you thought coming… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
My dad worked every day. I didn't get into show business to work every day. So the fact that most days I… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
Well, we're in show business, and I have been making a living in this business a long time and inevitably it means… — Walter Hill Copy Share Image
