Show business Quotes · Page 8

In show business, everyone loves a comeback story.

— Chris Connelly

I don't have a lot of lifetime regrets, and very few show business regrets, surely.

— Brad Hall

I work in show business - there's nothing that shocks me anymore!

— Thomas Gibson

I don't know how people get into show business if their family's not in it.

— Toni Basil

The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age

— Scott Bakula

There's a lot of people in show business who have show business parents.

— Bebe Buell

I love show business. It's my life, honey, and I try to enjoy it.

— Jimmy Scott

The only thing harder than leaving show business is coming back.

— Dave Chappelle

Oh, when I was a kid in show business I was poor. I used to go to orgies to eat the grapes.

— Rodney Dangerfield

Probably from, like, my freshman year of high school, I had this desire to perform and also be involved in the show…

— David A. R. White

If you are going to survive in business, show business or any business, then you have to be bold.

— Rebecca Ferguson

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

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

— Thomas McGuane

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

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

— Diana Ross

My eyes opened, and the first thing I thought of when I could put thoughts together was I want to be in…

— Joan Rivers

I couldn't do anything. I'd work in a department store for a couple of weeks, but I couldn't hack it. I couldn't…

— Helen Reddy

If there's anything in life you consider worthwhile achieving - go for it. I was told many times to forget show business…

— Isabel Sanford

What happened was, my parents after Circus Boy decided to take me out of show business for two years to go back…

— Micky Dolenz

I've had 79 to 80 years of show business. I started when I was 5 with a man called Tom Mix. I…

— George Sidney

In what other business can a guy my age drink martinis, smoke cigars and sing? I think all people who retire ought…

— George Burns

I made the decision to quit show business. Give up the skintight dresses and manicured smiles. The false concern over sentimental lyrics.…

— Maya Angelou

The most important thing in the world for show business, really, you know everything's a high-tech business, but what people want now…

— Mike Tyson

Bud [Yorkin] broke out big when he did 'The Fred Astaire Show' and won four Emmys. His wife at the time suggested…

— Norman Lear

I felt that I didn't want to be in show business anymore. I felt that I wanted to be a farmer. I…

— Gregory Hines

You often hear that people go into show business to find the love they never had when they were children. Never believe…

— Mel Brooks

Twenty-one years ago, when I first heard Mia Farrow had accused me of child molestation, I found the idea so ludicrous I…

— Woody Allen

You don't get a lot of life milestones in show business. It's really difficult to make things, and a lot of times…

— Scott Aukerman

Writing has nothing to do with publishing. Nothing. People get totally confused about that. You write because you have to - you…

— Peter S. Beagle

Everyone in show business makes these sweeping, "I'll never work with so-and-so again," because that's the way you feel at the moment.…

— Bronson Pinchot

When Ronald Reagan's career in show business came to an end, he was hired to impersonate, first, a California governor and then…

— Gore Vidal

In show business, you had levels. I was at the top of the TV end of it.

— Gabe Kaplan

I love the challenge of show business. It keeps me on my toes.

— Henry Darrow

I consider myself one of the luckiest people in the history of show business.

— Dick Wolf

My first job was on the end of a pier in the Isle of Wight doing show business.

— Danny John-Jules

It never dawned on me I would do anything but show business.

— Toni Basil

I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.

— Wanda Sykes

I'm in show business. I'm not like a poor factory worker who'd been laid off.

— Woody Allen

Show business is all I know, but I love it.

— Erin Moran