Show Business Quotes
I like my work, but my life always comes first. I always wanted to have a beautiful life, and the way to do it is in show business.
There are times in show business when you work so much you think you will pop your cork, and then suddenly you can't find any work.
My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one.
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.
I think in show business, it's really kind of easy to perpetuate that feeling of, like, Oh, I don't measure up. Or always having to prove yourself.
I know it's going to sound cheesy, but I love show business. I love doing comedy, I love that I get to do all this with my friends.
There's no show business in Canada, so everybody just did stand-up and we all thought, "Oh, we'll just keep doing stand-up." And then I'm like, "There's more work in the States."
If you get outside the world of show business and its satellites, there's a whole world of car nuts in the Los Angeles area.
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.
There's no job in show business that's harder than any other job outside show business.
I didn't learn fire-eating to conquer my fears. I learned fire-eating because I desperately wanted to be in show business.
When I came back into show business in '88 after spending 20-odd years in the civil service, it wasn't planned.
I'm the fourth generation to be in show business. It's pretty neat; it's nice to have that family history.
I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.
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.
I'd moved to L.A. with my mother when I was 17 or 18. She loved show business and I was young enough that I had no idea what I wanted to do.
Over 55,000 people saw the Beatles at Shea Stadium. We took $304,000 - the greatest gross ever in the history of show business!
I started dancing when I saw Fred Astaire in 'Flying Down to Rio,' at approximately nine years old. Fred Astaire influenced me, more than anything, to be in 'show business.
In show business, you can't make a living. You can only make a fortune, but you can't make a living.
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.
Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.
Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.
Will Ferrell is a dangerous man. If he thinks you're in his way in show business, he will crack your head open. He's the Jeff Gillooly of comedy.
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.
I said, to hell with the whole thing, to hell with show business. I'm gonna make a new life for myself, and I got off drugs, completely kicked all that stuff
If you can survive 'Saturday Night Live,' then you're good as far as show business is concerned.
By the time I was ready for college, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I think I secretly wanted a show business career, but I was suppressing it.
You still have that competitive thing where you want to try to make hits. That won't go away, unless the mayor of show business says my time's up.
There just seems to be too much violence everywhere, even the news can't help break now and then on TV
