Show business Quotes · Page 2

“politics is show business for the ugly?”

— James Browning

Rumours are a part of show business.

— Aditi Rao Hydari

Showbiz is great if you're successful.

— Don Rickles

There's no business like show business.

— Irving Berlin

Boxing is just show business with blood.

— Anonymous

I hate show business.

— Joni Mitchell

Its called show business, not show art.

— Jean Seberg

There isn't any more real show business.

— Jackie Coogan

Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.

— Martin Mull

Really, Mr. Lincoln, I have had enough of this show business.

— Ulysses S. Grant

Show biz! It's definitely not for sissies.

— Carmen Cusack

Sitcoms are what got me excited about show business.

— Jen Kirkman

Madness is a prerequisite of being in showbusiness.

— Rupert Everett

Show business pays you a lot of money because eventually you’re gonna get screwed.

— Jay Leno

All my shows are great. Some of them are bad. But they are all great.

— Michael Grade

In show business, you get chewed up and spit out.

— John Aniston

I think the fact that I was raised in show business, in New York City, in the '50s, that's affected my personality…

— Christopher Walken

Don't worry about me. I plan to continue to be in show business. I have already been booked to be in a…

— David Letterman

I've always been a good mother, but I've always been in show business, and I've been on stage, and I don't bake…

— Debbie Reynolds

I'm fortunate that I'm employed. And if you're in show business, of course, every night you go to bed and go, oh…

— Rick Mercer

I just think my life's been really blessed, because being in show business, I've met wonderful people, and I've traveled all over…

— Debbie Reynolds

I don't know if the idea of a career in show business or in the arts in general was looked down upon…

— Jason Sudeikis

I must be the only person of my age who doesn't have a bloody gong. They are so common in show business.

— Janet Street-Porter

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

— Prince Charles

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

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

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

— Sally Field

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

One thing I can take credit for, along with the rest of show business, is when the red ribbons were out, we…

— Gilbert Gottfried

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

— Billy Eckstine

Hip-hop has been so important in my work, because it speaks to the idea of money being tied to cultural capital in…

— Lauren Greenfield

I called all the major network news bureaus, including Public Radio, and reported ozone AIDS cures coming out of Europe. Not a…

— Ed McCabe

I was always around people who were in the business from the time I was an absolute baby. I grew up in…

— Fred Melamed

“The "show business," which is so incorporated into our view of Christian work today, has caused us to drift far from Our…

— Oswald Chambersd Chambers

I used to be more insecure about working, and I guess the older I get, the more rich my life becomes, I…

— John Slattery

I always tell new people in show business. I say, "Look, show business pays you a lot of money, because eventually you're…

— Jay Leno

“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well.…

— Michael Crichton

I'm very blessed, mainly because even though my family is mostly in show business, it's really centered around music. My parents were…

— Rufus Wainwright