“True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.” ShowsHollywoodMythFadesShow BusinessTrue FriendTrue Friendship Author:Kent McCord
“My upbringing was very un-Hollywood. I was born in New York and grew up on a ranch. I was never really smitten by the business in those days, never a fan type - just a basic kid watching TV. It wasn't like I was an insider. I was never really brought into the show business side of my father's life. I guess that's been a blessing and a downfall. But it's made my own work the initiation.” MadeShowsKidsFatherSidesBornMy OwnFansNew YorkTvsGrewTypeBlessingGrew UpHollywoodShow BusinessUpbringingDownfallInitiationInsidersWatching TvSmitten Author:Stephanie Zimbalist
“Don't thank your parents. If you were raised in a nurturing environment, you wouldn't be in show business. Don't say, 'Wow, this is heavy.' Of course it's heavy. It contains the shattered dreams of four other people.” PeopleIfsShowsDreamFilmCoursesParentEnvironmentFourHollywoodRaisedHeavyWowShow BusinessNurturingShatteredShattered Dreams Author:Conan O'Brien
“The Deer Hunter is securely on my list of American movie events, by which I mean those films that aspired to the whole equation, to be show business and art at the same time.” MeanArtWholeShowsFilmEventsHollywoodListsHuntersEquationsShow BusinessDeerAmerican MovieDeer Hunter Author:Edward Jay Epstein
“Show business can be an addiction. ... An audience would laugh at me one night, and I would chase that high for another three months.” ShowsNightThreeAudienceLaughingMonthsHollywoodAddictionShow BusinessOne NightThree Months Author:Joan Rivers
“I was absorbing a sorry truth of show business - rejection is the norm and acceptance the oddity. I was learning to cut the tops off my highs and stay with the lows where the rejections and letdowns would be shallow.” ShowsWould BeCuttingAcceptanceLowsHollywoodSorryRejectionShallowNormShow BusinessAbsorbingOdditiesLetdowns Author:Joan Rivers
“[Show] business is tough. You never know who or what's real. It's tough when you get in this business, if you have no grounded foundation other than Hollywood, because this business isn't real. We're getting paid to do what we love, but it isn't real.” IfsKnowsRealShowsToughHollywoodPaidFoundationGroundedShow Business Author:Columbus Short
“All these kids in Hollywood, the people born and raised out here, their parents are all in show business, and that's why I think we're good. That's why we're on top of the game now because we were born in it.” PeopleThinkingShowsKidsGamesParentBornHollywoodRaisedShow BusinessBorn And Raised Author:Pauly Shore
“In Hollywood they say there's no business like show business. In the hood they say there's no business like ho' business.” ShowsHollywoodShow BusinessHood Author:Curtis Jackson