Show business Quotes · Page 15

A lot of show business, as you know, is about all the contacts you make and who you know.

— Denise Crosby

I have a bad gambling problem. You're not in show business for 12 years and dress like this without a bad gambling problem.

— Artie Lange

I never intended to be in show business; I intended to be an extremely grounded person.

— Vicki Lawrence

I have received more fulfillment and adulation than I would ever know what to do with in terms of show business.

— Maria Bamford

I don't read about myself, and I don't read any magazine that has anything to do with movies or show business.

— Christopher Guest

Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.

— P. J. O'Rourke

It's important in show business to have friends who understand the cut and thrust of everyday working life and the constant rejection.

— Julian Ovenden

I've always been pretty levelheaded. In show business, you need to have a certain internal stability.

— Annette Bening

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

After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavors and from there it just blossomed. I…

— Angela Cartwright

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

I do see things that are funny on the net. I Googled myself the other day and found out that I was…

— David Crosby

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

Think well of yourself and others will too. Unless those others are in government, banking, or show business.

— Bob Saget

There is no business like show business. There is also no business like certified public accounting, but that doesn't rhyme as well.

— Craig Shaw Gardner

The only person I look up to - and not just in show business but also in the world - is a…

— RuPaul

My love life has never been of interest to people. Of course I have a love life; I have a real life…

— RuPaul

I'll just stay in [show business] till they stuff me like Trigger, when I drop dead.

— Debbie Reynolds

America is so much more 'show business.' For instance, you have Barack Obama. We have Fredrik Reinfeldt. Everyone in the world knows…

— Yung Lean

What's so wonderful about football and business and show business is that every time I start thinking I'm special, I get knocked…

— Fran Tarkenton

There's a beauty of show business. It's the only business you can have a career in when you're dead.

— Tom Waits

Most of the people I know in show business don't need anybody pushing them at all. They're extremely aggressive.

— Helen Reddy

If your in business your in show business. The moment you get to work your on stage. Give your performance of your…

— Robin Sharma

What I hope the most is to be more successful as a mother than in show business, because to be a mother…

— Celine Dion

Sometimes on Broadway, you don't know who the investors are, and you end up making a million dollars for somebody awful.

— John Tiffany

I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into…

— Cat Stevens

I'm not even worried about settling down. I think it's way too early. I'm 25 and I'm in show business. I mean,…

— Arj Barker

There is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they…

— Brent Spiner

I have not survived 50 years in showbusiness by being Mr. Nice. If you are weak, this business eats you up.

— Ronnie Corbett

The thing about people from Chicago and the Northwest suburbs is that they're very cocky. I think that serves us well in…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

There are times in show business when you work so much you think you will pop your cork, and then suddenly you…

— Martha Reeves

I was never really brought into the show business side of my father's life. I guess that's been a blessing and a…

— Stephanie Zimbalist

Every once in awhile, the world will push up an Elvis Presley or a Beatles. But that's really outside the realm of…

— Roy Orbison

I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.

— James Earl Jones

Stand-up comedy is like the lowest medium in all of show business in levels of respect.

— Chris Rock

True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.

— Kent McCord