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George Lindsay who played Goober thought Andy Griffith Show limited his career.

Totie Fields is one of my benchmarks for a lot of things. There was a standard of show business.

I always liked show biz and got to make a few training films at Boeing.

I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I didn't think of it as being tough and things like that.

I love any scene where there's a physical confrontation. It reminds me that I'm in show business and I play pretend for a living.

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

As far as show business, it's the gratification of doing something that pleases the fans.

In show business, if you make a mistake, you can do it over again.

If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come.

Thank God for Occupy and thank God for 'The Daily Show,' Colbert and the rising up that's going on around the world.

I think being individual in the show business is what gives you life and longevity.

There is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they where working in show business.

And, you know, when you are a kid, everybody wants to be an actor. I think that everybody wants to be in show business, frankly.

I do know that when I look around in show business, I see a lot of people who were in my drama class in high school.

I was 17, certainly by the time I was 19, I knew that show business was where I was going to end up, and I had my sights on being a director.

When you make 'The Daily Show', it's usually not for a laurel, it's for a dart.

All kids love to get dirty, but if I wandered into the garage, my father would say: 'Son, you're not going to have filthy hands like mine. You're going into show business.'

I do catch myself driving around singing tunes, but I don't know if it's necessarily show tunes.

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.

My brother is what got me into the show business. So it's a really great relationship we have. Our whole family is - we're thick as thieves.

TV shows and stuff give people in the show business very bad names. I'm not going to name any shows, but a lot of shows.

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

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.

Stand-up comedy is like the lowest medium in all of show business in levels of respect.

For me, the fashion show, the image, the shooting, is just a step. It's just a moment, but it's not the final destination.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Going to a fashion show is almost as painful as being in one.

Because I'm from North Carolina, you think I'm the Andy Griffith show, or something?

Show me on the doll where Fun is a rock band.

I pride myself on being down-to-earth. I’m from the Midwest. People who go into show business are screwed up. I romanticized about having a serene life.

Life is like The Muppet Show, but instead of Muppets there's anxiety.

Every time there's a cut in the action, we joke and dance around, there's show tunes and fart noises.

Everyday I meet folks who show me how to look at challenges differently.

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.

If you're a soldier or marine in an Arab country, Islam is the solution. And you need to show respect.

Someday you'll have to show me how you did that," Asharak was saying. "I found the experience interesting. My horse had hysterics, however." "My apologies to your horse.

I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theater, I didn't even know there was a show business.

I spent 11 years at 'The Daily Show,' and I learned everything there about how to write funny, how to write funny on topic.

Don't worry about me. I plan to continue to be in show business. I have already been booked to be in a production of 'The Sunshine Boys' with Jay Leno.

My good friend Paul Shaffer and I are going to continue in show business. Next month Paul and I will debut our new act at Caesar's Palace with our white tigers.

I wanted my book to make people cry, but I feel like I'm the only person who my book is going to make cry, if they show me the sales numbers.

I did win [on a contest]. And that started me on a new path, and into show business.

Show me the story. I just want to tell a story that pulls me forward.

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

I'm not all that enthralled by show business, and I'm not that much of a highbrow.

My wife, as proud as she was of me, hated show business for good reasons. There was something about the spouse always being pushed out of the way, shoved aside. She wanted to get away from it.

I consider myself one of the luckiest people in the history of show business.