Show Business Quotes

It's fun when you're driving, and people wave at you, and you wave back. I think you either like people or you don't. I mean, I don't want to put on sunglasses. That's why I'm in show business.

I was disillusioned by Hollywood at the time, but now I've come to accept that's just the way things are: it's called show business, not show art.

I have a girlfriend, but I don't really want to talk about her. I won't name her. She isn't in show business, has nothing to do with it. So I'd rather just keep her out of it.

The circus comes as close to being the world in microcosm as anything I know; in a way, it puts all the rest of show business in the shade.

The essence of show business is, if you see a tight-rope walker go across a tight rope, everybody claps. But, if you see him wobble, everybody gasps.

Boxing is just show business with blood.

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

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 even type! I had no skills whatsoever outside of show business.

I have had my different husbands, my families. I am fond of them all and I visit them all. But deep inside me there is the feeling that I belong to show business.

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

I am constantly asked why I never made other films after 'There's No Business Like Show Business,' the answer is I was never asked.

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

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 my god, tomorrow I'll never, ever work again.

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

When I do something, I do it all the way. I've been in show business so many years. I've achieved a lot of things.

To be successful in show business, all you need are 50 good breaks.

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

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

People always say, well, how do you get through show business? How do you swim the waters? And how do you survive and all that? I had a very solid method, and that is team up with ambitious partners.

Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.

I was always in show business but in many ways was not really of show business. I didn't move in show business circles, particularly, still don't do it.

I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.

[On daughter Liza Minnelli] I think she decided to go into show business when she was an embryo, she kicked so much.

I tried to look presentable for a show, but not for sexual attraction. It was strictly for show business.

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

I'll be like Irving Berlin: "There's no business like show business."

Show business is what I do, not what I am.

I wanted to be a model; I wanted to be a nurse; I wanted to be so many things, almost anything but being part of show business.

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

I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents.

Anything can change in show business, you know how it goes, everything changes from one day to the other.

Benedict Cumberbatch is not only the best name in show business, it's also the response you get when you ask John Travolta to pronounce Ben Affleck.

I have a suspicion that the definition of "crazy" in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to f*** [sleep with her] anymore.

I just wanted to be in show business. I didn't care if I was going to be an actor or a magician or what. Comedy was a point of the least resistance, really. And on the simplest level, I loved comedy.

Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offered to you.

Stand-up don't get no respect - it's the hardest thing to do in show business. You don't have no band and there's no music.

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

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

You don't need tons of money to create art. You do need tons of money to be a part of show business. They are two different things.

My home has always been show business.

Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.

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

Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.

There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.

Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable.

I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business - I want to see someone so hungry that they eat somebody else's foot.

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

I didn't think before that I'd done enough to justify publishing an autobiography but after 40 years in show business I'm now ready to tell my story.

My name was originally John Collins, but I just didn't think it had the flair I needed. I found out the poet laureate of Poland was named Krasinski and so it seemed like a shoe-in for show business.

If you are going into show business for money and power, forget it! It won't happen. You don't go for that first.