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“I always like to tell people who are interested in the business, and the acquired wisdom I give my children, is to stay out of show business. There are better ways to lead your life. You might end up being happier and spend more time with your family and make more money if you don't work in the film business.”

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Author:Jay Cassidy

“Most people that work in [show] business, if they're not gypsies by nature, become gypsies, just because of the reality of this business.”

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Author:Charlie Hunnam

“I keep my kids out of the whole business entirely. Allegra and Lucas are five and six and I'm not interested in them doing any acting at all. I don't want my kids in show business. I keep them as far away from my work as possible.”

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Author:John Leguizamo

“On a day-to-day basis, you get tired of waiting to be accepted. In show business, someone else has to say that you're good or that you're worth going to see or worth taping a show. There's a lot of pain here. There's a lot of pain inside. I'm a sad, crying-on-the-inside kind of clown.”

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Author:Greg Giraldo

“I just wanted to be a good comic and had no sense of show business, but at some point you want the opportunity to write a show about your life.”

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Author:Marc Maron

“I'm lucky having parents that have been in show business for a while and they don't care about the shiny stuff so much. They raised me in that way - to stay grounded, not to chase the shiny pretty things. I stay in the moment, because when you do that the hype goes away.”

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Author:Zoe Kravitz

“It's important in show business to have friends who understand the cut and thrust of everyday working life and the constant rejection.”

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Author:Julian Ovenden

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

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Author:Annette Bening

“In this [show] business you do something rock 'n' roll and then that's it, finished, heads roll. It's best not to take drugs, go to sex dungeons or cause controversy. And those who've done it - Russell Brand, Angus Deayton, whoever - they've really paid for it, even if what they've done is quite trivial.”

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Author:Konnie Huq

“I think that you have to prepare yourself mentally for show business, because it is such a tough world. You don't realize how hard it is until you're actually in it and you're actually on the show.”

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Author:Carmen Rasmusen

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

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Author:Sophia Loren

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

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Author:Ethel Waters

“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.”

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Author:T Bone Burnett

“I'd rather be a flop at show business than to be a success at something I didn't like.”

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Book:The Most of George Burns

Source: The Most of George Burns

“I must be the only person of my age who doesn't have a bloody gong. They are so common in show business.”

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Author:Janet Street-Porter

“I learned some invaluable lessons in Nashville that apply to both farming and show business: Do not corner something you know is meaner than you; keep skunks of all kinds at a distance; if you forgive your enemies, it messes up their heads.”

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Book:The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart

Source: The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart

“I try to please people, to give them a good time, but I refuse to make my act conform to traditional show-biz standards of entertainment. There's a little voice that says, 'Oh, no, you can't do that, that's breaking all the rules.' That's the voice of show business. Then this other little voice says, 'Try it.' And most of the time, when the voice comes on and says, 'No,' that's the time it works.”

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Author:Andy Kaufman

“I don't like show business. I don't like the business. I love acting. I love this. I love talking to people.”

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Author:Jeffrey Tambor

“My family's been in show business since the 1700s. I traced them. I'm bred to this. Like a racehorse. A thoroughbred. Look at my parents, my God. But it was my curiosity that made me do this. Because you could also say: "Look at Frank Sinatra Jr." It's not like a natural thing that happens. You gotta work.”

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Author:Liza Minnelli

“There is indeed a business like show business. It's the news.”

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Book:Who's to say what's obscene?: politics, culture and comedy in America today

Source: Who's to say what's obscene?: politics, culture and comedy in America today

“The Beatles looked like they were in show business, and that was the important thing. And the important thing for the Rolling Stones was to look as if they were not.”

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Author:Andrew Loog Oldham

“The Beatles first appeared on our show on February 9, 1964, and I have never seen any scenes to compare with the bedlam that was occasioned by their debut. Broadway was jammed with people for almost eight blocks. They screamed, yelled, and stopped traffic. It was indescribable ... There has never been anything like it in show business, and the New York City police were very happy it didn't - and wouldn't - happen again.”

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Author:Ed Sullivan

“Over 55,000 people saw the Beatles at Shea Stadium. We took $304,000 - the greatest gross ever in the history of show business!”

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Author:Sid Bernstein

“One of the main destructive forces within our family has been these runaway egos. I think if you look at any show business family, that struggle exists.”

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Author:Rufus Wainwright

“Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It's very much a live show: they have comedy writers waiting in the wings, and as you come off between presentations, they hand you an appropriate gag to tell.”

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Author:Michael Caine

“It's one of the old show business axioms. No matter how successful you've been, there's always a younger and sexier seal coming along.”

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Book:Gracie/Caeser Spec Ed

Source: Gracie/Caeser Spec Ed

“In what other business can a guy my age drink martinis, smoke cigars and sing? I think all people who retire ought to go into show business. I've been retired all my life.”

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Author:George Burns

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

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Author:Eddie Murphy

“That's ended, that's over. I want you to meet my pimps. I thought, I'm a show-business ho already, so I might as well be a real ho.”

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Author:Bill Maher

“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.”

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Author:Jack Benny

“When I was forty, I was getting divorced, living in a low-class, dirty hotel in New York. My mother was dying of cancer. I owed $20,000. That was about the lowest. I came back to show business, and I couldn't get a job. I was turned down by every small-time agent in New York.”

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Author:Rodney Dangerfield

“I think people are used to people in show business having a lot of hubris. I think I have a normal amount of self-loathing but because I'm in show business it's considered self-deprecation. In normal life I would just be considered your average neurotic.”

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Author:Jon Stewart

“My theory has always been that everyone in show business is there because they were deprived of some attention as a child.”

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Book:Everything and a Kite

Source: Everything and a Kite

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

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Author:Richard Pryor

“No one could ever argue with me about people in show business being kind of nice.”

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Author:Desi Arnaz

“I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.”

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Author:Michael Jackson

“I have a bad gambling problem. You're not in show business for 12 years and dress like this without a bad gambling problem.”

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Author:Artie Lange

“Liverpool really ever since I can remember, but anyway in the '50s and '60s was always a place where people were potentially in show business, knew someone who was, would like to be, had been but were now doing something else and there was a general recreational feeling in the air at all times.”

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Author:Derek Taylor

“I always say that I love magic but I hate magicians. I like being fooled. If you wave your hands in front of my face and I think you're doing a trick, I'm easily impressed. If you pull a quarter out of my ear, I'm quite certain you're a wizard. But I don't like the way most magicians don't act like they're magical; they act like show business dicks.”

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Author:Greg Behrendt

“Think well of yourself and others will too. Unless those others are in government, banking, or show business.”

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Author:Bob Saget

“I heard a quote once in a documentary about a band that said you're better off owning everything 100 percent and selling 20,000 copies of an album than signing with a record company and selling a million copies. There has never been a truer statement about show business than that.”

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Author:Bill Burr

“I'm not even worried about settling down. I think it's way too early. I'm 25 and I'm in show business. I mean, if things go well, my wife hasn't even been born yet.”

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Author:Arj Barker

“I was the worst bricklayer in the world. I can show you buildings I worked on - they're a hazard. I closed a window one time. I forgot to set back a brick and I just kept going - there I was singing 'There's no business like show business'.”

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Author:Pat Cooper

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

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Author:Dolly Parton

“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.”

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Author:Pauly Shore

“There is no business like show business. There is also no business like certified public accounting, but that doesn't rhyme as well.”

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Author:Craig Shaw Gardner

“None of my family had anything to do with show business, my life was totally foreign to them.”

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Author:Gloria Gaynor

“Growing up in Mississippi, I was such a farmer, and it's not desirable to bring attention to yourself. That's my nature, and all of a sudden, I'm in show business.”

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Author:Mac McAnally

“People in show business who are interested in politics, like Ronald Reagan, fare so well because they do know the magic of dealing with the public. This is something that can't be taught in a book. If they can produce after they've won over the public. If you can live up to your ballyhoo, you've got it made.”

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Author:Liberace

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

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Author:John Travolta

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