Show business Quotes · Page 9

Ever since I was a child, I was fascinated by show business, the theater.

— Milos Forman

In show business, more showgirls are kept than promises.

— Fred Allen

In show business, if you make a mistake, you can do it over again.

— Bobby Sherman

If I'd married someone in show business, there'd be too much competition.

— Dolly Parton

The first rule of show business is get off the stage while people still want more.

— Terence Winter

For the most part, comedy is the only fair part of show business.

— Chris Rock

I love show business. I wake up every morning and kiss it.

— Richard Pryor

I'm just a giddy teenager who would like to break into show business any way I can.

— Bo Burnham

I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern.

— Brent Spiner

I was always in show business but in many ways was not really of show business. I didn't move in show business…

— Dick Van Dyke

It's too much show business and too much prompting, too much artificiality, and not really debates. They're rehearsed appearances.

— George H. W. Bush

I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.

— Carroll O'Connor

In show business the saying seems too often true: it isn't enough to succeed; someone else must fail.

— Gene Tierney

I have had my different husbands, my families. I am fond of them all and I visit them all. But deep inside…

— Ingrid Bergman

The Beatles looked like they were in show business, and that was the important thing. And the important thing for the Rolling…

— Andrew Loog Oldham

The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch.

— Tom Arnold

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

— Billy Eckstine

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

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

My parents were both in show business. My father was an actor, my mom an actress, and both singers, dancers and actors.…

— Micky Dolenz

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

— Sally Field

People don't realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn't change that.…

— Dolly Parton

I think one of the most difficult challenges in show business is the challenge of longevity and to constantly realize and reveal…

— Blair Underwood

To sustain a career in show business, you have to have a certain amount of delusion, because it's such an insane way…

— Paul F. Tompkins

I am not an educated person. I didn't come up through a ballet company. I came up through burlesque. So I have…

— Bob Fosse

I have the same friends I had in high school. I'm married to the same woman I had. I'm still driving the…

— Jay Leno

“(Popular singer Eddie Fisher, appearing on This is Show Business, told Kaufman that women refused to date him because he looked so…

— George S. Kaufman

The highs and lows of show business is a rollercoaster for sure. There's so many highs, there's just moments of your life…

— Jim Carrey

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

— Norman Lear

People deal with grief in many different ways. And some people in show business parade their relationships around like an accessory, and…

— RuPaul

I try to please people, to give them a good time, but I refuse to make my act conform to traditional show-biz…

— Andy Kaufman

I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.

— Ted Turner

I stayed in show business to pay for my animal business.

— Betty White

“Oh damn and fuck show business and all its ways.”

— David Hare

Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left

— Anonymous

You've got to know business before you go to show business.

— Patti LaBelle

Sitcom is the best gig in show business because it's easy hours, nine to five.

— Damon Wayans

When you're in show business no matter what you're doing it's an insecure business.

— Lorna Luft

I've always learned in show business: you take the job.

— Margo Martindale