Show business Quotes · Page 10

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

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 must be the only person of my age who doesn't have a bloody gong. They are so common in show business.

— Janet Street-Porter

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…

— Debbie Reynolds

I don't know if the idea of a career in show business or in the arts in general was looked down upon…

— Jason Sudeikis

Don't worry about me. I plan to continue to be in show business. I have already been booked to be in a…

— David Letterman

I think the fact that I was raised in show business, in New York City, in the '50s, that's affected my personality…

— Christopher Walken

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…

— Rick Mercer

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

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

Show business is - you're there by somebody's fluke. And as long as somebody likes you, and the show is going well,…

— Joan Rivers

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 made the decision to quit show business. Give up the skintight dresses and manicured smiles. The false concern over sentimental lyrics.…

— Maya Angelou

The most important thing in the world for show business, really, you know everything's a high-tech business, but what people want now…

— Mike Tyson

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…

— Debbie Reynolds

By the time I was ready for college, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I think I secretly wanted a…

— Will Ferrell

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

— Robert Lepage

In show business, you can't make a living. You can only make a fortune, but you can't make a living.

— Steve Guttenberg

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

— Christopher Walken

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

— Debbie Reynolds

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

— Ashley Tisdale

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

— Nikhil Sharda

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

— Jay Mohr

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 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

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 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

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

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

— Brent Spiner

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

— Eddie Murphy

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

— Theodore Bikel

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

— Jay Leno

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

— Will Arnett