Show business Quotes · Page 9

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

— Margo Martindale

When you're in show business no matter what you're doing it's an insecure business.

— Lorna Luft

“Oh damn and fuck show business and all its ways.”

— David Hare

Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left

— Anonymous

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

I'm very happy to be employed. I always contend that in show business that if you're employed, then you're successful.

— Lance Burton

I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern.

— Brent Spiner

It was very important to me that I be my own person. That's why I chose show business.

— Ksenia Sobchak

One of the main destructive forces within our family has been these runaway egos. I think if you look at any show…

— Rufus Wainwright

I learned everything that I know about comedy and about show business and a lot about life from Carl.

— Dick Van Dyke

Forget about 40 years in show business. Just surviving 27 years of Nicole Richie is enough.

— Lionel Richie

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 was born and raised to entertain other people. I've heard laughter and applause and known a lot of sorrow. Everything about…

— Donald O'Connor

I want to tell my jokes. I want to have time with my children. I want to entertain people. And at one…

— Dave Chappelle

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

There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was…

— Sally Field

If you're being attacked by something on the outside, which I feel a lot being in show business, you just have to…

— Jackee Harry

My father kind of encouraged me through that. Exactly,[work] not as an actor, obviously, but as someone in show business that had…

— David Copperfield

My parents were both in show business. My father was an actor, my mom an actress, and both singers, dancers and actors.…

— Micky Dolenz

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

— Norman Lear

The highs and lows of show business is a rollercoaster for sure. There's so many highs, there's just moments of your life…

— Jim Carrey

I had never met an actress or an actor when I thought that I might like to be one. I had never…

— Annette Bening

The Broadway community is unlike any community in show business and it is unlike any community in the world. When you come…

— Lorna Luft

This whole show business industry is awkward; I just met you and I'm telling you personal things about my life. But that's…

— Nick Murphy

People deal with grief in many different ways. And some people in show business parade their relationships around like an accessory, and…

— RuPaul

I try to please people, to give them a good time, but I refuse to make my act conform to traditional show-biz…

— Andy Kaufman

So the English approach to show business and their work is more - and this is a big generalization, I hasten to…

— Elizabeth McGovern

If you are going into show business for money and power, forget it! It won't happen. You don't go for that first.

— John Travolta

A lot of people say I'd miss show business if I quit. I'd miss some of it. Now it's the only life…

— Loretta Lynn

The best part about being in the 'showbiz' industry is that you can voice your opinion.

— Urvashi Rautela

Show business is dog eat dog. It's worse than dog eat dog. It's dog doesn't return dog's phone calls.

— Woody Allen

The biggest mistake I ever made was snorting cocaine. The second biggest mistake was I didn't realize that show business was two…

— Larry Gatlin

My father wasn't much for show business. He was an insurance man - very well-liked, very warm. He had a lot of…

— Don Rickles

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

— Walt Disney

Don't look to people in show business as role models... There's something inherently wrong with people who want this kind of attention.

— Cole Escola

Show business can be an addiction. ... An audience would laugh at me one night, and I would chase that high for…

— Joan Rivers

I said, to hell with the whole thing, to hell with show business. I'm gonna make a new life for myself, and…

— Tommy Kirk

One of the reasons I like to teach is that I like to pass things on. That's an unspoken law of show…

— Ann Reinking

I believe most people don't go into show business unless they've been majorly unloved as a child.

— Ryan Murphy