Show business Quotes · Page 13

That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life.

— Barbara Mandrell

Ten years ago I was driving a forklift at the Kmart warehouse and nobody was screaming at me then. I guess it's…

— Alan Jackson

I understand that show business people can wear the public a bit thin when it comes to politics. I know they wear…

— Clint Howard

Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and…

— Ethel Waters

I said, 'If I don't play football for a living, I'm going to get into show business.'

— Bradley Walsh

The greatest acts in colored show business had long made Harlem their home and favorite stamping ground.

— Ethel Waters

My dad was the cause of me being in show business. He was not only in poetry but in acting a bit.…

— Chuck Berry

I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I didn't…

— Billy Eckstine

I don't have any ego about it, but I find there's not a great work ethic in show business. A lot of…

— Norm MacDonald

Having spent too many years in show business, the one thing I see that succeeds is persistence. It's the person who just…

— David Mamet

On a day-to-day basis, you get tired of waiting to be accepted. In show business, someone else has to say that you're…

— Greg Giraldo

There's a site on the internet that swears up and down that I'm worth $46 million and that I'm one of the…

— David Crosby

I don't do the show business lifestyle, you'll never see me rolling out of parties with a goody bag in my hand.…

— Paddy McGuinness

I think I'm lucky having parents that have been in show business for a while, and they don't care about the shiny…

— Zoe Kravitz

There's nothing that I love to do more than act and I feel really lucky to be in the position that I'm…

— Sophia Bush

I think one of the things about Donald Trump that's interesting is he lives in a rarified atmosphere where it's possible that…

— Penn Jillette

I wanted to be a model; I wanted to be a nurse; I wanted to be so many things, almost anything but…

— Shirley Bassey

I just wanted to be a good comic and had no sense of show business, but at some point you want the…

— Marc Maron

Most of the people I know in show business don't need anybody pushing them at all. They're extremely aggressive.

— Helen Reddy

What I hope the most is to be more successful as a mother than in show business, because to be a mother…

— Celine Dion

If your in business your in show business. The moment you get to work your on stage. Give your performance of your…

— Robin Sharma

America is so much more 'show business.' For instance, you have Barack Obama. We have Fredrik Reinfeldt. Everyone in the world knows…

— Yung Lean

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

— Debbie Reynolds

What's so wonderful about football and business and show business is that every time I start thinking I'm special, I get knocked…

— Fran Tarkenton

There's a beauty of show business. It's the only business you can have a career in when you're dead.

— Tom Waits

I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into…

— Cat Stevens

Sometimes on Broadway, you don't know who the investors are, and you end up making a million dollars for somebody awful.

— John Tiffany

It's a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that's what it takes to be…

— Donny Osmond

Think well of yourself and others will too. Unless those others are in government, banking, or show business.

— Bob Saget

My love life has never been of interest to people. Of course I have a love life; I have a real life…

— RuPaul

The only person I look up to - and not just in show business but also in the world - is a…

— RuPaul

There is no business like show business. There is also no business like certified public accounting, but that doesn't rhyme as well.

— Craig Shaw Gardner

I never intended to be in show business; I intended to be an extremely grounded person.

— 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

Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I've always been pretty levelheaded. In show business, you need to have a certain internal stability.

— Annette Bening

I have received more fulfillment and adulation than I would ever know what to do with in terms of show business.

— Maria Bamford

I don't read about myself, and I don't read any magazine that has anything to do with movies or show business.

— Christopher Guest

There came a time when I had to decide between show business and devoting my full time to medical training. I chose…

— Barbi Benton

A lot of show business, as you know, is about all the contacts you make and who you know.

— Denise Crosby