Show business Quotes · Page 12

Rejection is a big part of show business. It can be tough on anyone who doesn't have fairly good self-esteem. Especially kids,…

— Angela Cartwright

None of my family had anything to do with show business, my life was totally foreign to them.

— Gloria Gaynor

To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every…

— Liza Minnelli

I pride myself on being down-to-earth. I’m from the Midwest. People who go into show business are screwed up. I romanticized about…

— Craig Kilborn

I believe that the Laws of Karma do not apply to show business, where good things happen to bad people on a…

— Chuck Lorre

On daughter Liza Minnelli: I think she decided to go into show business when she was an embryo, she kicked so much.

— Judy Garland

Listen, even if you go wild, I like class. Everybody in show business never should forget that there is a line, and…

— Charo

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

— Shirley Bassey

If you're going to be honest with yourself, you have to admit that you go into show business wanting people to talk…

— Ellen DeGeneres

I had no ambition to go into show business when I was growing up. I started out as an advertising copywriter and…

— Bob Einstein

To the truly driven (which one has to be to survive in the high stakes, competitive world of show business), lack of…

— K Callan

Nobody in my family is in the show business, and none of my friends were. I went to a very academic school…

— Freema Agyeman

I think I'm great. I mean, I might as well come out and say it. Like most people, I have an ego…

— Loudon Wainwright III

I never was in favor of doing this. No, no, no. I was never in favor of cursing on records and so…

— Rudy Ray Moore

Making a success in show business is like getting a big promotion on a job. You get more prestige, more authority, more…

— Jim Nabors

I was being ridiculed for going to school... But, you see, I had looked hard at the other musicians and the whole…

— Donald Byrd

I was brought up to do my duty. Not to be vain, not to shout from the rooftops about my virtues -…

— Terry Wogan

Although I'm largely doing other things in life, it's very nice occasionally to put my toe back in the waters of show…

— Hugh Grant

Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.

— Terence McKenna

I love every aspect of show business and that includes both the show part of it and the business part of it.

— Kristy Swanson

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

— RuPaul

My life hasn't been the norm. The most interesting parts are before I got into show business.

— Jim Nabors

Show business is made up of disappointments, and it's through life's disappointments that you grow.

— Minnie Pearl

Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?

— Tamara Tunie

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

— Toni Basil

I'm a showgirl. After 20 years in show business, I've learned to roll with the punches.

— Madonna Ciccone

I was studying pre-med at UCLA when I decided show business was for me, and the best way to make it was…

— Barbi Benton

I love any scene where there's a physical confrontation. It reminds me that I'm in show business and I play pretend for…

— Bob Odenkirk

I was never one to seek out the spotlight. I am kind of a private person, so I don't miss that part…

— Angela Cartwright

Sometimes you have to let people down in order to get on, particularly in showbusiness.

— Dusty Springfield

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

When I came back into show business in '88 after spending 20-odd years in the civil service, it wasn't planned.

— Pete Best

It's heartbreaking to see theater people be forced to accept the business side of show business.

— Alice Ripley

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

— Jill Scott

Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.

— Carroll O'Connor

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

The most important thing I learned from Dad about show business was never take myself seriously and never stop having fun with…

— Lorenzo Lamas

Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business. He loved it so much.

— Jeff Bridges

I want to stay in show business; if show business will have me. Still I'd like people to know that I can…

— Judy Norton

I love performing, but I never really liked show business. My success is my family. I want to be more successful as…

— Celine Dion