Show business Quotes · Page 20

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

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

— Steve Guttenberg

If you get outside the world of show business and its satellites, there's a whole world of car nuts in the Los…

— P. J. O'Rourke

There's no show business in Canada, so everybody just did stand-up and we all thought, "Oh, we'll just keep doing stand-up." And…

— Norm MacDonald

I was always around people who were in the business from the time I was an absolute baby. I grew up in…

— Fred Melamed

I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit.

— Shirley Bassey

You don't need tons of money to create art. You do need tons of money to be a part of show business.…

— Demian Bichir

Sitcom is the best gig in show business because it's easy hours, nine to five.

— Damon Wayans

I tried to look presentable for a show, but not for sexual attraction. It was strictly for show business.

— Little Richard

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

— Denise Crosby

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

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

— Yung Lean

Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the car listening…

— Daryl Hall

There's no business like show business.

— Irving Berlin

Bob Hope was an entertainment colossus, shrewd and influential well beyond show business. Richard Zoglin's biography captures it all--the public and private…

— Tom Brokaw

There's a site on the internet that swears up and down that I'm worth $46 million and that I'm one of the…

— David Crosby

I walked out of the show business in 1968 because I thought that would be good for the family. It took me…

— Pete Best

I knew early in life that I wanted a show business career.

— Irene Cara

I love when I am around a veteran in [show] business. Because I can dig and ask questions, and find out the…

— Jill Scott

I'm lucky having parents that have been in show business for a while and they don't care about the shiny stuff so…

— Zoe Kravitz

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 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 don't think people should be priced out of going to the theatre... But we have to recognise that it is a…

— Jamie Parker

I have accomplished my childhood dream: to be in show business. Everybody should be so lucky to have their dreams come true.…

— Dick Clark

That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.

— Benny Hill