Show business Quotes · Page 4

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

— Ulysses S. Grant

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

— Martin Mull

Madness is a prerequisite of being in showbusiness.

— Rupert Everett

Sitcoms are what got me excited about show business.

— Jen Kirkman

I never grew up with heroes in show business. My hero was my father.

— Adrian Pasdar

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be in show business!

— Maria Canals Barrera

I wanted to be in show business before I could get out of my crib.

— Joey Heatherton

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

— Jay Leno

I don't mind having a one-hit wonder as long as I have a career in show business, which has been fabulous.

— Toni Basil

in show business there's not much point in asking yourself if someone really likes you or if he just thinks you can…

— Pauline Kael

My father had a hotel, and people in show business used to stay there. He loved peformers and entertainment, and I grew…

— Gilda Radner

I consider myself to be more real-sized than most of the actresses in California and in show business. They're very small. They're…

— Jane Krakowski

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

— RuPaul

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

— Kristy Swanson

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

— Terence McKenna

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

I always like to tell people who are interested in the business, and the acquired wisdom I give my children, is to…

— Jay Cassidy

I started dancing when I saw Fred Astaire in 'Flying Down to Rio,' at approximately nine years old. Fred Astaire influenced me,…

— Stanley Donen

Stephen A. Smith is the hardest-working man in sports show business. The ubiquitous basketball pundit appears on ESPN about 10 times a…

— Stephen Rodrick

When I was in college, I was debating to try my hand at show business, or to become a professor. I just…

— Steve Martin

Show business is an impersonal and relatively savage business, and it's always evolving. If you're lucky enough to have a day when…

— Ti West

I'm very leery of show business, having been in Los Angeles for the last 10 years. Buzz is a dangerous thing that…

— Greg Kinnear

Noel Fielding is one of the nicest guys in show business. The first time I met him, I felt like I had…

— Sandi Toksvig

One of the reasons we moved to L.A. in the first place [was] so that it was no big deal that I…

— Eric Idle

“James Brown had many guises, many names: Crip, Music Box, The Hardest Working Man In Show Business, Mr. Please Please Please, Butane…

— R.J. Smith

“All of the myths of mankind are nothing but show business,' the other man said to me during our initial meeting. 'Everything…

— Thomas Ligotti

Actors didn't use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels. Actors were poor. Celebrities…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I'm in show business. I believe in illusion and delusions and in holding aloft the bubble of a dream of some sort…

— Meryl Streep

People don't turn away from an attorney sitting in a wheelchair. If the guy has got the reputation for being the best…

— Gerald McRaney

“Late in November, Lenny took off for his eagerly anticipated job in Chicago. It had been nearly a year since he played…

— Albert Goldman

Nobody's going to break down walls for you; you have to break them down yourself. Nobody's inviting anyone into this game. 'Oh,…

— Donald Faison

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

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

— John Aniston

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

— Michael Grade

I finally discovered that my life is more important than show business.

— Tom Waits

I like show business - performing. I can't think of anything better.

— Tiffany Darwish

Yes, I love the movie business. In fact, there's no business like show business.

— Prateik Babbar

Buzz and the right publicist are not only important but crucial in show business.

— Halston

It's also show business. It's not "show fun friends".

— Lauren Graham

If I lose show business - I'll really be an orphan!

— Red Buttons