Show business Quotes · Page 11

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

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

In what other business can a guy my age drink martinis, smoke cigars and sing? I think all people who retire ought…

— George Burns

What happened was, my parents after Circus Boy decided to take me out of show business for two years to go back…

— Micky Dolenz

I've had 79 to 80 years of show business. I started when I was 5 with a man called Tom Mix. I…

— George Sidney

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 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

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

— Joan Rivers

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

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

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

— Rebel Wilson

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

— Larry Wilcox

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

— Peter Gallagher

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

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

— Diana Ross

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

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

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

— Ricky Jay

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

— Vicki Lawrence

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

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

— Richard Belzer

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

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

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

— Anna Chlumsky

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

— Lady Gaga

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

— Richie Havens

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 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