Show business Quotes · Page 13

In Hollywood they say there's no business like show business. In the hood they say there's no business like ho' business.

— Curtis Jackson

There were a lot of signs being thrown at me. A lot of angels I was meeting, inspiring me to get back…

— Anna Chlumsky

I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand…

— Michael Jackson

I didn't think before that I'd done enough to justify publishing an autobiography but after 40 years in show business I'm now…

— Cilla Black

We had some problems - my children were kidnapped during that time, and it just changed my whole way of thinking, from…

— Solomon Burke

Growing up in Mississippi, I was such a farmer, and it's not desirable to bring attention to yourself. That's my nature, and…

— Anonymous

Never really intended to be a comedian, just sort of fell into that, but always wanted to be in show business, or…

— Doug Benson

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

— David Letterman

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

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

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

I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you…

— Christopher Walken

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

— Steve Martin

Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a…

— Ethel Merman

I was 17, certainly by the time I was 19, I knew that show business was where I was going to end…

— Brian Henson

Just because you're working does not mean you're making money. That's two very different things in show business.

— Billy Porter

I like my work, but my life always comes first. I always wanted to have a beautiful life, and the way to…

— Marianne Faithfull

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

— Neil Postman

I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theater, I didn't even know there was a…

— David Geffen

I was a musician for years before I started doing this stuff. Show business was the only thing I ever considered.

— Miguel Ferrer

I think there's a pedigree that comes with being from Chicago that gives you some cache outside of L.A. and New York,…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

In show business, generally you don't retire. If you love it, that is, you're in it forever anyway.

— Jimmy Scott

Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable.

— David Johansen

I don't like show business. I don't like the business. I love acting. I love this. I love talking to people.

— Jeffrey Tambor

When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be…

— Kat Edmonson

There's show business, and the business is sometimes in capital letters. You just have to give it your best shot when up…

— Jimmy Smits

I never knew any Jews until I got into show business. I've found them to be real smart and good workers.

— Loretta Lynn

And you poor creatures--who conjured you out of the clay? Is God in show business, too?

— John Boorman

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

I started standup at age nineteen. I decided that the only way I was going to try show business as a career…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

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

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

— Lawrence O'Donnell

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

— Julio Torres

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

— Kenny Baker

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

— Vera-Ellen