Show Business Quotes

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

To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face.

I never knew any Jews until I got into show business. I've found them to be real smart and good workers.

Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person.

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 was a weirdo to want to be in show business. Most kids wanted to be teachers or nurses.

There's nobody in show business that I dislike so I wouldn't want to get in there to hurt anybody.

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.

My home has always been show business.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life.

I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gather behind you and help you to succeed in any way possible.

On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married

I guess I've never really been aggressive, although almost everybody else in show business fights and gouges and knees to get where they want to be.

Timing and pace are important in any film, whether it be comedy or drama. And how better to learn the fundamentals of these show show business ingredients than by dancing?

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

I think 'Y&R's future is contingent upon the ratings. Obviously, none of the soaps are kept alive for the sake of loyalty. It's all about ratings. It's show business. Period.

In show business, more showgirls are kept than promises.

Show business is like riding a bicycle - when you fall off, the best thing to do is get up, brush yourself off and get back on again.

My mother always wanted to be in show business, but her parents discouraged her. So when I started performing for the mirror she enrolled me in dancing, singing and piano lessons.

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

I thought success in show business was everything. It isn't. I don't know what is.

In my heart and soul, I always knew that I wanted to be in show business.

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

When all of your friends are getting pregnant, you start thinking about it. But for Amy and I, show business is our baby.

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

I've always been pretty levelheaded. In show business you need to have a certain internal stability.

I love performing, but I never really liked show business. My success is my family. I want to be more successful as a mother.

Show business is and has always been a depraved carnival.

A lot of show business, as you know, is about all the contacts you make and who you know.

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

What's important for me is to give my daughters a well-rounded education and a mixture of people in their lives. They'll make their own choices. I think they would be good in show business.

My father wasn't much for show business. He was an insurance man - very well-liked, very warm. He had a lot of friends.

I'm in a whole different part of show business. I'm not even part of Shakespeare in Love.

My brother, Mario, is in show business and so are all my cousins on my dad's side. We come from a family of musicians. My grandmother's sister in Puerto Rico plays five instruments.

I began my show business career playing violin in San Francisco at the corner of Market and Taylor. I understand that there is a theater there now.

It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.

People have very specific opinions of comedy. Slapstick was an art form in the '20s and the lowest form of show business in the '50s. Who's right, who's wrong? Who's an idiot, who's not?

I wanted to entertain so badly that I kept at it until I was good. I just browbeat my way into show business.

I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit.

Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.

You and I and everybody in show business and the entertainment industry fly by the seat of our pants. We don't know quite what is going to happen.

Liberace was certainly master and commander of the ivories ~ he is the only pianist I can watch or listen to without suffering a case of 'Stagefright Sympathy Sickness'.

Every day's a negotiation and sometimes it's done with guns.

My parents weren't involved in show business but my parents would show me. We'd watch old films in the house.