Show business Quotes · Page 5

Most of the cast and crew on 'Mama's Family' have been together since the 'Carol Burnett' days, so we work really well…

— Vicki Lawrence

You simply have to love show business to make the risk worthwhile.

— Sarah Vaughan

A friend of mine once asked how to make it in show business and I said "Be so good that they can't…

— Steve Martin

“politics is show business for the ugly?”

— James Browning

Oddly enough, Dame Edna is not interested in show business. Her friends in Los Angeles are mostly in the world of petroleum.…

— Barry Humphries

I love show business. I wake up every morning and kiss it.

— Richard Pryor

Show business is what I do, not what I am.

— Sophia Loren

I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my…

— Andy Gibb

I've seen up close what can happen when actors talk publicly about their relationships: their personal life gets dismantled. It's a show…

— Katherine Moennig

I began my show business career playing violin in San Francisco at the corner of Market and Taylor. I understand that there…

— Jack Benny

I just wanted to be in show business. I didn't care if I was going to be an actor or a magician…

— Steve Martin

There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business.

— Ethel Waters

If you grow up in show business, you look beyond the looking glass. So, all of the surface facades get broken.

— RuPaul

There is no doubt that diversity is a problem in show business and that this fight has been going on for a…

— Vincent Rodriguez III

Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm…

— Meryl Streep

I was a weirdo to want to be in show business. Most kids wanted to be teachers or nurses.

— Nell Carter

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

— Diana Ross

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

— Debbie Reynolds

I didn't plan on going into show business. Show business picked me. And it's been fun. One of the best things about…

— Vicki Lawrence

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

Anything can change in show business; you know how it goes, everything changes from one day to the other.

— Ricky Martin

There's nobody in show business that I dislike so I wouldn't want to get in there to hurt anybody.

— Robert Goulet

“mix epic individualism with extreme religion; mix show business with everything else; let all that steep and simmer for a few centuries;…

— Kurt Andersen

One of the reasons we moved to L.A. in the first place [was] so that it was no big deal that I…

— Eric Idle

I grew up in show business, so I always knew I was going to be a dancer or a performer. I knew…

— Toni Basil