Show business Quotes · Page 8

“Writing is show business for shy people.”

— Lee Child

At the end of the day, it's show business: you earn money to make money.

— Taapsee Pannu

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

— Chris Rock

I'm not all that enthralled by show business, and I'm not that much of a highbrow.

— Dick Cavett

That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.

— Benny Hill

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

— Sophia Loren

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

— Bo Burnham

I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.

— Ted Turner

It's true that in show business, a lot of times a producer will just not ever be there, not even be aware…

— Pete Holmes

I guess I've never really been aggressive, although almost everybody else in show business fights and gouges and knees to get where…

— Andy Williams

The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch.

— Tom Arnold

The Beatles looked like they were in show business, and that was the important thing. And the important thing for the Rolling…

— Andrew Loog Oldham

You still have that competitive thing where you want to try to make hits. That won't go away, unless the mayor of…

— Will Ferrell

My parents weren't involved in show business but my parents would show me. We'd watch old films in the house.

— Alden Ehrenreich

There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.

— Billie Holiday

There was always music in our house and my mother was a Cotton Club dancer for a short time. But they never…

— Leslie Uggams

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

— Daryl Hall

I just remember always wanting to make things. That was what was really interesting to me, but I had no career goal…

— Ramy Youssef

We have boys now, and men, in the rock and roll business and all the show business, who have this reaction on…

— Minnie Pearl

People don't realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn't change that.…

— Dolly Parton

It kills me to see people think that, show business is sex, drugs and rock and roll. And I have what you…

— Smokey Robinson

I heard a quote once in a documentary about a band that said you're better off owning everything 100 percent and selling…

— Bill Burr

I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great…

— Sally Field

I just went to Harvard a little while, because I graduated from Armstrong High School in Washington and then I went up…

— Billy Eckstine

I always say that I love magic but I hate magicians. I like being fooled. If you wave your hands in front…

— Greg Behrendt

“Ecclesiastes This is a book of the Old Testament. I don't believe I've ever read this section of the Bible - I…

— A.J. Jacobs

I really saw Pat Brady, Kelsey Grammer's character's point of view that it's a business. It's show business. So, it was an…

— Matt Bomer

To sustain a career in show business, you have to have a certain amount of delusion, because it's such an insane way…

— Paul F. Tompkins

The Beatles first appeared on our show on February 9, 1964, and I have never seen any scenes to compare with the…

— Ed Sullivan

We would also go to musicals. So Singing In the Rain, On the Town, and West Side Story. Especially West Side Story…

— Marisa Tomei

I am not an educated person. I didn't come up through a ballet company. I came up through burlesque. So I have…

— Bob Fosse

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

— Richard Pryor

I stayed in show business to pay for my animal business.

— Betty White

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

— Bobby Sherman

In show business, more showgirls are kept than promises.

— Fred Allen

If I'd married someone in show business, there'd be too much competition.

— Dolly Parton

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

— Damon Wayans

You can laugh at me, but I understand show business.

— Ksenia Sobchak

I've always learned in show business: you take the job.

— Margo Martindale