Show business Quotes · Page 15

I'm just a giddy teenager who would like to break into show business any way I can.

— Bo Burnham

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

In show business, if you make a mistake, you can do it over again.

— Bobby Sherman

All my shows are great. Some of them are bad. But they are all great.

— Michael Grade

I do know that when I look around in show business, I see a lot of people who were in my drama…

— Brent Spiner

I'm in show business... I want to hang out with Janet Jackson, not Jesse Jackson.

— Chris Rock

That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like…

— Victoria Jackson

Oh, when I was a kid in show business I was poor. I used to go to orgies to eat the grapes.

— Rodney Dangerfield

I was brought up to do my duty. Not to be vain, not to shout from the rooftops about my virtues -…

— Terry Wogan

“...the deliberate application of the techniques of theater to politics, religion, education, literature, commerce, warfare, crime, everything, has converted them into branches…

— Neal Gabler

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

I was so happy I didn't have to work that night. That was the truth, because show business is about the hardest…

— Elaine Stritch

I'm from New York; I've been in show business all my life. I'm a wild and crazy gal, yet I always play…

— Bonnie Bedelia

I think that you have to prepare yourself mentally for show business, because it is such a tough world. You don't realize…

— Carmen Rasmusen

Bud [Yorkin] broke out big when he did 'The Fred Astaire Show' and won four Emmys. His wife at the time suggested…

— Norman Lear

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

— Annette Bening

“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well.…

— Michael Crichton

Spontaneity is such an entertaining facet of show business.

— Chuck Barris

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

— Jay Chandrasekhar

The independents who were our fiercest competitors all succumbed to the one-hit-makes-you-a-genius philosophy. It is a mistake to think you have the…

— Samuel Goldwyn

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

— Miguel Ferrer

“[T]he definition of 'crazy' in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to fuck her anymore.”

— Tina Fey

I was supposed to go to Northwestern and become a dental hygienist, get married, have babies. My father was very against me…

— Lauren Tom

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

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