Show business Quotes · Page 11

I didn't learn fire-eating to conquer my fears. I learned fire-eating because I desperately wanted to be in show business.

— Penn Jillette

I know it's going to sound cheesy, but I love show business. I love doing comedy, I love that I get to…

— Nick Kroll

I did win [on a contest]. And that started me on a new path, and into show business.

— Debbie Reynolds

I'm not good at doing show business; I'm a theatre person. I don't reveal anything about my life.

— Robert Lepage

By the time I was ready for college, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I think I secretly wanted a…

— Will Ferrell

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

— Steve Guttenberg

I'd moved to L.A. with my mother when I was 17 or 18. She loved show business and I was young enough…

— Sherilyn Fenn

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

Show business is - you're there by somebody's fluke. And as long as somebody likes you, and the show is going well,…

— Joan Rivers

I could've always worked shows, clubs, Las Vegas and Atlantic City, but I was successful in business ventures, and things weren't happening…

— Gabe Kaplan

When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that…

— Ed Helms

I'm a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few…

— Diana Ross

I was the worst bricklayer in the world. I can show you buildings I worked on - they're a hazard. I closed…

— Pat Cooper

The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent,…

— Danica McKellar

All kids love to get dirty, but if I wandered into the garage, my father would say: 'Son, you're not going to…

— Bruce Forsyth

I'm not a big believer in slavishly following research. It's one of the things that's wrong with television is that if you…

— Grant Tinker

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

— Ryan Murphy

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

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

My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one.

— Marvin Hamlisch

There is an old show business saying which warns never to work with animals or children, but nobody prepared me for Molly…

— Prince Charles

I was a theatrical kid, but my parents were overprotective. When I expressed interest in show business, they shut it down.

— Wendi McLendon-Covey

I did say to myself one day, 'I'd love to be a Jewish comedian,' but that's my only memory with any connection…

— Paul Morrissey

I'm oddly not competitive. What I love about show business is there is a home for everyone.

— Jay Mohr

Of course in show business there are two ways to play it and I am not politically correct so I am not…

— Artie Lange

Will Ferrell is a dangerous man. If he thinks you're in his way in show business, he will crack your head open.…

— Tina Fey

“There just seems to be too much violence everywhere, even the news can't help break now and then on TV”

— Nikhil Sharda

Im happy that I was able to experience a normal life besides show business, because it gives you something to draw from.

— Ashley Tisdale

Get out of show business. Its the best advice I ever got, because Im so stubborn that if someone would tell me…

— Walter Matthau

I don't know what my life would have been like if I'd never gotten into show business.

— Diana Ross

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

The occupational hazard of making a spectacle of yourself, over the long haul, is that at some point you buy a ticket…

— Thomas McGuane

The literary aspect of the film business excites me, but show business in general doesn't take any mental giant.

— Larry Wilcox

No matter what the role, you're trying to do the impossible - make a living in show business.

— Peter Gallagher

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

— Diana Ross

You and I and everybody in show business and the entertainment industry fly by the seat of our pants. We don't know…

— William Shatner

I think there is certainly luck and fate involved in any career of any kind. In show business, maybe it's even more…

— Gary Cole

They say that politics is show business for ugly people, but as I always crack, what would I know about that? I…

— George Galloway

Every actor wants to direct and produce, but I made a conscious decision when I was in college to understand the 'business'…

— Theodore Bikel

Show business is like Champagne. You'll appreciate it more if you don't drink it everyday

— Jay Leno