Best Show Business Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 9

“Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.”

Shows School High School Paid Show Business

“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.”

Way Different Helping Shows Kids Behinds Students Succeed Average Show Business Behind You

Book:Wally George: The Father of Combat TV

Source: Wally George: The Father of Combat TV

“What happened was, my parents after Circus Boy decided to take me out of show business for two years to go back to normal school. It was the smartest thing they ever did.”

Years Two Shows School Parent Boys Happened Normal Decided Two Years Take Me Show Business Circus

Author:Micky Dolenz

“Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along.”

Ifs Knows Mind Soul Shows Ego Devil Agree Your Soul Performers Portions Show Business Own Business Mind Your Own Business

Author:Marc Maron

“I think one of the most difficult challenges in show business is the challenge of longevity and to constantly realize and reveal what's already been there - like doing stage and singing and dancing in New York. I haven't been that far out of my comfort zone in a while.”

Thinking Shows Difficult Realizing Challenges Business Stage Havens New York Comfort Singing Dancing Zone Longevity Comfort Zone Show Business Singing And Dancing Difficult Challenges

Author:Blair Underwood

“I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.”

Thinking Shows Emotional Failure Negative Fuel Ingredients Stakes Show Business Fear Of Failure

Author:Garry Shandling

“I called all the major network news bureaus, including Public Radio, and reported ozone AIDS cures coming out of Europe. Not a single reporter or show called back for details. I wrote and sent documentation to all the 'household word' TV talk show hosts who make their living acting 'concerned' and I tried all the 'AIDS fund raising spokespeople', show business celebs, even sending proof of their home addresses, but as of yet not one single phone call or inquiry came back for more.”

“I have a girlfriend, but I don't really want to talk about her. I won't name her. She isn't in show business, has nothing to do with it. So I'd rather just keep her out of it.”

Want Shows Names Girlfriend Show Business

Author:Luke Perry

“I didn't think before that I'd done enough to justify publishing an autobiography but after 40 years in show business I'm now ready to tell my story.”

Thinking Years Done Enough Stories Shows Ready Justify Publishing Autobiography Show Business

Author:Cilla Black

“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.”

Ifs Shows Care Wanted Actors Levels Comedy Magic Resistance Simplest Show Business Magician

Author:Steve Martin

“At home, we don't listen to our music-we listen to other people's music. It keeps you attached to the show business world.”

People World Shows Home Show Business Business World

Author:Celine Dion

“I have shared my whole life. My private and my show business life. It helps me actually to feel my songs and to go on with my dreams.”

Feels Whole Helping Shows Dream Song Goes On Whole Life Help Me Show Business Business Life Fruitful Life

Author:Celine Dion

“I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.”

Life Art Shows Building Entertainment Show Business

Author:Walt Disney

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

Shows Age Bits Decided Retiring Show Business

Author:Shirley Bassey

“Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.”

Shows Business Promise Offers Catholic Catholicism Show Business

Author:John Guare

“There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.”

Shows Smile Damn Throwing Show Business Throwing Up

Author:Billie Holiday

“Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.”

Shows Kids Laughed Show Business Controversial Provocative

Author:Don Rickles

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

Want Shows Feelings Hurt Dislike Show Business Hurt Feelings

Author:Robert Goulet

“I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.”

Shows Sports Challenges Church Education Moral Dear Alcohol Show Me Show Business Dear God Saloons Universal Education Business Education

Book:Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ

Source: Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ

“A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.”

Ends Done Shows Stuff Views Business Generations Benefits Ambition Standards Profit Shops Get Away Show Business Spaciousness

Author:Alexander Herzen

“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.”

Shows Asks Names Response Oscars Show Business

Author:Neil Patrick Harris

“Never mind the transience of show business and popularity. When we hear Ray Charles, we go, 'That's a great singer.' You don't need a reporter or a writer to tell us. Good is good and it should shine through the years.”

Needs Should Years Mind Shows Shining Singers Rays Popularity Reporters Show Business Through The Years Transience

Author:Art Garfunkel

“When I do something, I do it all the way. I've been in show business so many years. I've achieved a lot of things.”

Way Years Shows Show Business

Author:Celine Dion

“The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch.”

People Ifs Feels Shows Moving Failing Show Business Notches

Author:Tom Arnold

“All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel ... and that's what I've been doing all my life.”

Shows Bigs Wanted Show Business

Author:Count Basie

“Milton Berle is an inspiration to every young person that wants to get into show business. Hard work, perseverance, and discipline: all the things you need...when you have no talent.”

Want Needs Persons Hard Shows Inspiration Young Talent Hard Work Discipline Perseverance Show Business Milton

Author:Dean Martin

“Having spent too many years in show business, the one thing I see that succeeds is persistence. It's the person who just ain't gonna go home. I decided early on that I wasn't going to go home. This is what I'll be doing until they put me in jail or in a coffin.”

Years Persons Shows Home One Thing Succeed Decided Persistence Jail Show Business Coffins

Author:David Mamet

“Show business is dog eat dog. It's worse than dog eat dog. It's dog doesn't return dog's phone calls.”

Shows Dog Return Phones Show Business Phone Calls

Author:Woody Allen

“I believe that the laws of karma do not apply to show business, where good things happen to bad people on a fairly regular basis.”

People Believe Shows Happens Law I Believe Bases Good Things Karma Things Happen Show Business Bad People I Believe In Karma Law Of Karma

Author:Chuck Lorre

“I'm not in show business; I'm in the communications business. That's what it's about for me.”

Shows Havens Communication Show Business

Author:Richie Havens

“To be successful in show business, all you need are 50 good breaks.”

Needs Shows Break Successful Being Successful Show Business

Author:Walter Matthau

“If I lose show business - I'll really be an orphan!”

Ifs Shows Loses Show Business Orphan

Author:Red Buttons

“What I hope the most is to be more successful as a mother than in show business, because to be a mother is the most difficult I will ever have to do.”

Shows Mother Difficult Successful Show Business

Author:Celine Dion

“I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great things one day and the next day, nothing.”

Shows Next Class Grew One Day Grew Up Great Things Working Class Next Day Show Business Glamorous Business Family

Author:Sally Field

“I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.”

Thinking World Writing Shows Comedy Wise Hardest Things To Do Hardest Thing Show Business Hardest Thing To Do

Author:Carol Burnett

“I was always in show business but in many ways was not really of show business. I didn't move in show business circles, particularly, still don't do it.”

Way Stills Shows Moving Circles Show Business

Author:Dick Van Dyke

“The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.”

Writing Shows Please Journalism Show Business

Author:Frank Miller

“One of the basic troubles with radio and television news is that both instruments have grown up as an incompatible combination of show business, advertising and news. Each of the three is a rather bizarre and demanding profession. And when you get all three under one roof, the dust never settles.”

Shows Three Trouble Television News Instruments Radio Profession Advertising Dust Journalism Combination Settling Roof Bizarre Show Business Never Settle Television News

Author:Edward R. Murrow

“I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents. I've always known what is and isn't reality. Even my older brothers' early success 10 years ago didn't change me since there was such an age difference.”

“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.”

Shows Wanted Perfect Fantasy Guitar Show Business Perfect Life

Author:Victoria Jackson

“It's show business. No show, no business.”

Shows Business Show Business

Author:Dick Wolf

“If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.”

Ifs Shows Hands Happens Strong Business Careers Fate Plans Determine Show Business Strong Hands

Author:Sam Waterston

“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.”

People Want Shows Film Poor Situation Comedy Style Television Relation Show Business Snobbery

Author:Sally Field

“My name was originally John Collins, but I just didn't think it had the flair I needed. I found out the poet laureate of Poland was named Krasinski and so it seemed like a shoe-in for show business.”

Thinking Shows Found Names Poet Needed Shoes Boots Show Business Poland Flair

Author:John Krasinski

“We have boys now, and men, in the rock and roll business and all the show business, who have this reaction on women. They scream. They yell. They do all sorts of wild things.”

Men Shows Boys Rocks Reactions Pregnancy Scream Rock And Roll Show Business Wild Things

Author:Minnie Pearl

“To read 'Happy Talk' is to crash a party as vivid and surreal as Felini's 8. It's the business of show business, the American dream, told by a chorus of Americans locked just outside of that dream, outside of the United States, relegated to expatriate status on the shores of Haiti. Melo paints a version of Haiti that's an interior landscape perhaps even more than an externalized place. This Haiti is a plan, a memory, a morphine-drip fueled dream out to bond its inhabitants forever.”

“No one would have picked me out in high school and said, 'This guy is going to be in show business.' I don't have any of the talents you would normally associate with show business.”

Said Shows School Guy Talent High School Associates This Guy Show Business

Author:Jerry Springer

“Show business pays you a lot of money, because eventually you’re gonna get screwed.”

Shows Pay Lots Of Money Show Business

Author:Jay Leno

“Rejection is a big part of show business. It can be tough on anyone who doesn't have fairly good self-esteem. Especially kids, as they try to discover who they are.”

Trying Self Shows Bigs Kids Self Esteem Tough Esteem Rejection Show Business

Author:Angela Cartwright

“The circus comes as close to being the world in microcosm as anything I know; in a way, it puts all the rest of show business in the shade.”

Knows World Way Shows Shade Show Business Circus Microcosm

Book:In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers

Source: In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers

Show Business Quotes

Related topics

Show Business Quotes