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

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“Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.”

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Book:There he goes again: Ronald Reagan's reign of error

Source: There he goes again: Ronald Reagan's reign of error

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

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Author:Little Richard

“Los Angeles is such a town of show business, and I'm a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult - it's the beast that must be fed. There's this big wheel of pictures and articles that goes around, and you get pinned on it.”

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Author:Julia Roberts

“I'm in show business... I want to hang out with Janet Jackson, not Jesse Jackson.”

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Author:Chris Rock

“I have this mistress: show business.”

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Author:Ray Romano

“There's no business like show business.”

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Author:Irving Berlin

“They do not love that do not show their love.”

Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators

“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.”

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Author:William Shatner

“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.”

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Author:Cat Stevens

“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.”

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Author:Meryl Streep

“I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.”

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Author:Wanda Sykes

“I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.”

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Author:Ted Turner

“Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor.”

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Author:Christopher Walken

“I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn't have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business.”

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Author:Christopher Walken

“I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier, I think I would have made a lot more musical movies.”

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Author:Christopher Walken

“I think the fact that I grew up in show business had a real effect on my personality. If you were born in New York during the golden age of television, and you grew up on Broadway, that marks you.”

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Author:Christopher Walken

“I think the fact that I was raised in show business, in New York City, in the '50s, that's affected my personality to the point that I'm a little different.”

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Author:Christopher Walken

“I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, 'I wish more people saw that' - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business.”

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Author:Christopher Walken

“There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business.”

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Author:Ethel Waters

“Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me.”

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Author:Ethel Waters

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

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Author:Betty White

“I always wanted to be a zookeeper when I was growing up, and I've wound up a zookeeper! I've been working with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years! I'm the luckiest old broad on two feet because my life is divided absolutely in half - half animals and half show business. You can't ask for better than two things you love the most.”

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Author:Betty White

“I am interested in a lot of things - not just show business and my passion for animals. I try to keep current in what's going on in the world. I do mental exercises. I don't have any trouble memorizing lines because of the crossword puzzles I do every day to keep my mind a little limber. I don't sit and vegetate.”

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Author:Betty White

“I cannot stand the people who get wonderful starts in show business and who abuse it. Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen, for example, although there are plenty of others, too. They are the most blessed people in the world, and they don't appreciate it.”

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Author:Betty White

“I began painting well before I started doing comedy. In fact, when I came out of the war in 1946, I enrolled in art school in Dayton, Ohio. I painted for three years, and then show business took hold.”

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Author:Jonathan Winters

“Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice. The result is that we are a people on the verge of amusing ourselves to death.”

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Book:Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

“We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks - that's show business.”

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Author:Edward R. Murrow

“Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business.”

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Author:Jeff Bridges

“Nowadays it seems more and more like the 'business' in 'show business' is underlined, and there are campaigns, and it's all part of getting people in to see the movies.”

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Author:Jeff Bridges

“I would rather die than have my fans see me without a pair of heels on. And that's show business.”

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Author:Lady Gaga

“I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.”

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Author:Adam Carolla

“Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority.”

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Author:Jim Carrey

“If politics is like show business, then the idea is not to pursue excellence, clarity or honesty but to appear as if you are, which is another matter altogether.”

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Book:Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

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

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Author:Nell Carter

“I don't like people who are in politics for themselves and not for others. You want that, you can go into show business.”

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Author:Elvis Presley

“I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.”

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Author:Charlie Chaplin

“I want to tell my jokes. I want to have time with my children. I want to entertain people. And at one point, I'll walk away from show business. But I don't want to walk away empty-handed.”

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Author:Dave Chappelle

“If you're a car salesman, and someone says "This is a terrible car, I'm not buying it," it doesn't mean they hate you. They just don't like your product. I think that's a mistake a lot of people in show business make.. they're so tied to their act they take everything personally.”

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Author:Jay Leno

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

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Author:Judy Garland

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

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Author:Tommy Steele

“After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavours and from there it just blossomed. I have always had to have an outlet for my creativity and when my life became more about raising my family than the bright lights of show business exploring my photo art was a great outlet for me.”

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Author:Angela Cartwright

“It's too much show business and too much prompting, too much artificiality, and not really debates. They're rehearsed appearances.”

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Author:George H. W. Bush

“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.”

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Author:Shirley Bassey

“Boxing is just show business with blood.”

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Author:Frank Bruno

“Boxing is show-business with blood.”

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Author:David Belasco

“Show business is like Champagne. You'll appreciate it more if you don't drink it everyday”

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Author:Jay Leno

“Golf is my profession Show business is just to pay the green fees.”

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Author:Bob Hope

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

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Author:Kristy Swanson

“In 40-odd years in show business, some years I could do no wrong, and some years I could do nothing right. Show business. I owe it everything - it owes me nothing.”

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Author:Patsy Kelly

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