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“I did a lot of things when I first started out. In order to be in show business, I juggled, I did magic tricks, cards tricks and I played the banjo.”

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Author:Steve Martin

“A friend of mine once asked how to make it in show business and I said "Be so good that they can't ignore you." She thought I was being flip but it's true. The challenge is trying to live up to the opportunities given me.”

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Author:Steve Martin

“My dad worked every day. I didn't get into show business to work every day. So the fact that most days I get to like, spend really good time with my kids - that's what success is to me.”

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Author:Chris Rock

“There are people who believe once somebody gets you a job in show business you are set and the truth is you have to fight for every job. People opened the doors for me for sure and hopefully I've helped open the door for some people but when you're there it's on you and you better be ready for it.”

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Author:Tom Arnold

“The most important thing in the world for show business, really, you know everything's a high-tech business, but what people want now is what they can't get - exclusivity.”

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Author:Mike Tyson

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

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Author:Tom Waits

“Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.”

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Author:Terence McKenna

“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.”

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Author:Eric Braeden

“It's easier to get on show business, the hard part is to maintain. Nobody stays famous forever.”

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Author:Chris Rock

“What is so liberating about this whole business is when you see that, you know, big movies are going to come out, huge movies are going to come out, and then you see them up in Malibu in the little Triplex theater a week later, on the scratch negative, and you think...“This is show business. This is the great movie career. And it’s all finding it in the shoebox.””

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Author:Anthony Hopkins

“A lot of us [comedians] are drawn to the stage or show business or whatever because we didn't feel so great about ourselves, and we didn't know how to do anything about that, so we sought external approval.”

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Author:Barry Crimmins

“The highs and lows of show business is a rollercoaster for sure. There's so many highs, there's just moments of your life where you go, "Wow I can't believe how insanely lucky I am," and then you can turn around and the next moment feel so completely caught up in your own wanting, and desiring, and needing and feel like somehow you're missing something. It's just higher the high, the lower the low.”

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Author:Jim Carrey

“Just like every kid who comes into show business on some level, I used to put shows on in my basement. I even started with doing tricks and having a ventriloquist dummy.”

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Author:Don Scardino

“I made the decision to quit show business. Give up the skintight dresses and manicured smiles. The false concern over sentimental lyrics. I would never again work to make people smile inanely and would take on the responsibility of making them think.”

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Book:The Heart of a Woman

Source: The Heart of a Woman

“Show business is made up of disappointments, and it's through life's disappointments that you grow.”

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Author:Minnie Pearl

“You know when there's a star, like in show business, the star has her name in lights on the marquee! Right? And the star gets themoney because the people come to see the star, right? Well, I'm the star, and all of you are in the chorus.”

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Author:Babe Didrikson Zaharias

“And you poor creatures--who conjured you out of the clay? Is God in show business, too?”

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Author:John Boorman

“All my shows are great. Some of them are bad. But they are all great.”

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Author:Michael Grade

“I have received more fulfillment and adulation than I would ever know what to do with in terms of show business.”

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Author:Maria Bamford

“People who like to fume about the manner in which Disney changed beloved classics are often ignorant of history, not to mention the realities of show business.”

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Book:Ancient Rockets: Treasures and Train Wrecks of the Silent Screen

Source: Ancient Rockets: Treasures and Train Wrecks of the Silent Screen

“Bob Hope was an entertainment colossus, shrewd and influential well beyond show business. Richard Zoglin's biography captures it all--the public and private Hope.”

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Author:Tom Brokaw

“When I got back into show business in 1961, I felt - for obvious reasons - that nothing in my life went right, and I realized that millions of people felt the same way. So when I first came back my catch phrase was "nothing goes right." Early on, that was my setup for a lot of jokes.”

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Book:It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs

Source: It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs

“When I was 15 years old I felt totally confident I would become a world champion and the greatest bodybuilder in the world. The same was true of show business - I knew that one day I would make more money than anyone else in the industry and I did. For that you need the willingness to work and do everything it takes to make the vision turn into reality.”

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Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

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Author:Woody Allen

“I'm enjoying everything in my life, but I think the element of surprise in show business is what makes us really love it, because one day you're sitting by the phone waiting to do something or not doing anything, and the next day you've got the chance of a lifetime. Those little phone calls don't come up so often, but when they come up, it's fantastic.”

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Author:Elton John

“I fell in love with Bruce Lee after I watched his movies, and I wanted to become a kung-fu practicer, and I would like to be someone like Bruce Lee. That's why I learned kung-fu, and that's why I picked the wing chun style, because it's his style. That's why I decided to be an actor, to go into show business, because of him.”

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Author:Stephen Chow

“[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.”

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Author:Columbus Short

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

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Author:Debbie Reynolds

“I'll just stay in [show business] till they stuff me like Trigger, when I drop dead.”

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Author:Debbie Reynolds

“I come from a show-business family, so wanting to become an actor never crossed my mind. It was just a part of my life.”

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Author:Christopher Walken

“I think probably the most difficult challenge was just the climb and rise in show business because I went through my entire twenties with some success as a comedy writer but not much as a performer. And you have to be kind of informed and naive at the same time.”

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Author:Steve Martin

“I knew I wanted to be in show business so I took the path of least resistance. I loved comedy. But you never know you are funny until people laugh. It's just what I was interested in. I could make people laugh, I guess, but doing it at school and doing it onstage are very different things.”

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Author:Steve Martin

“In show business, never underestimate the power of saying "no".”

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Author:Doc Brown

“Ronald Reagan came from show business. His idea of how the government should help the homeless was like your agent. "We'll try to get you work. But don't bug us about it."”

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Author:Bill Maher

“There's a beauty of show business. It's the only business you can have a career in when you're dead.”

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Author:Tom Waits

“I've always got the road. Stand-up makes you so autonomous and self-sufficient that it really helps with that part of show business.”

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Author:Louis C. K.

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

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Author:Chris Rock

“So there's a cloud of rage around me, but being an artist kind of changes that. No matter what you thought coming in, what ignorant thing you believed, you're in show business for two years, you're like, "OK, I was wrong." It's hard to be mad at any particular group of people when you're an artist.”

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Author:Chris Rock

“I love when I am around a veteran in [show] business. Because I can dig and ask questions, and find out the "who" and "what" of it all.”

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Author:Jill Scott

“In show business, it takes 10 years to create an overnight success. You've heard that, right? But what you don't hear is that that's the exact same amount of time it takes to create a bitter failure.”

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Author:Marc Maron

“I'm not in show business because I don't have to go to the meetings, I'm just not a part of it, I don't belong to it. When you "belong" to something. You want to think about that word, "belong." People should think about that: it means they own you. If you belong to something it owns you, and I just don't care for that. I like spinning out here like one of those subatomic particles that they can't quite pin down.”

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Author:George Carlin

“You can't be a kid in show business. You will not survive.”

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Author:Vanessa Hudgens

“You have to constantly recreate yourself in show business, which is a very fast thing, especially now with the tremendous speed of social media. There are so many personalities, so many different kinds of comedy that you can access, so it’s definitely important to stake your claim and say who you are.”

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Author:Margaret Cho

“I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.”

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Author:Roy Rogers

“History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.”

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Book:Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself

Source: Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself

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

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Author:Rebecca Ferguson

“That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.”

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Author:Benny Hill

“I'm always interested in the unexpected and know that things, especially in show business, but in life generally, are inevitably fleeting to one extent.”

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Author:Jeff Goldblum

“I'm not sure what it would mean to have "made it." Made what? Yes, I can make a decent living in show business, so if that's the criteria, then I've made it. But that doesn't feel that important to me. The stuff that matters to me are the new challenges. I know that sounds hokey, but it's true.”

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Author:Michael Ian Black

“I don't know if the idea of a career in show business or in the arts in general was looked down upon as much as by baby boomers as it was by their parents.”

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Author:Jason Sudeikis

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