Top 1200 Show Business Quotes & Sayings

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.

There came a time when I had to decide between show business and devoting my full time to medical training. I chose show business.

If you're in the WWE, it's like show business boot camp. You learn a little bit about everything as far as show business is involved.

Yes, I love the movie business. In fact, there's no business like show business.

The tagline behind "House of Lies" is funny, dirty, business. The show is a comedy satire about how big business operates. Most Americans that work in corporate America should be able to relate to this show.

That's what Letterman did. He mocked everything and everyone in show business, even though he was at the top of show business. He was in it but not really of it, and that's one thing I came to love about him. I mean, you can't sit there and interview Cher and pretend you're not in show business, but he managed to pull it off somehow.

There's no job in show business that's harder than any other job outside show business.

The big thing I learned from Chris Rock was not to be a victim of show business. Don't let show business push you around.

On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married

Around 1950, I quit and went into the appliance business. But even then I was still in show business.

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

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.

I didn't have the drive; I never wanted to be in show business. I went into my father's business because of osmosis.

There's show business, and the business is sometimes in capital letters. You just have to give it your best shot when up at bat.

You've got to know business before you go to show business.

I've had 79 to 80 years of show business. I started when I was 5 with a man called Tom Mix. I didn't have time to go to school because I was in silent movies, I was in radio, I was in burlesque, I worked with the circus. I'm all show business!

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

I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern.

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

No one in my family is in show business, unless you count dog shows as show business.

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

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

The pressure of show business is on all the time and show business is a fickle business. Whatever is popular now - that's all that counts. I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I'm doing and why.

For years, people have been trying to talk to me about doing a show, and I wouldn't do one because I'm a serious business guy. I'm not going to do a stupid show. So, the opportunity came up with CNBC, and we started talking. It became a real business show. It's educational, people watch it, and it's great for small business.

You know, back when I was a kid who wanted to be in show business, everybody on TV wore nice clothes. They were very glamorous when they would be on the 'Tonight Show.' All the dudes wore suits and ties and that just seemed like real show business to me.

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.

Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the complete, total focus of it was very difficult.

When I was in college, I was debating to try my hand at show business, or to become a professor. I just thought of the risk of not going into show business and always wondering if I would've had a chance. Because that's where my real heart was.

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'.

I grew up thinking of show business as a business.

The business is about coming up with a business plan and using your relationships and networking and seeing your dreams come true. Everyone on this show has their own business. Fifteen minutes of fame is fleeting. It's about learning the business and creating a new business.

I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.

It's heartbreaking to see theater people be forced to accept the business side of show business.

The challenge for a director - and I think a lot of directors feel the same way - is that today we have to put on a producer's hat, too. Meaning, you have to sometimes think of it being 'business show,' not just 'show business.'

I personally, only work with people in my business who show excellence. I have a business, the business of enlightenment.

Every actor wants to direct and produce, but I made a conscious decision when I was in college to understand the 'business' of 'show business.'

Politics isn't a reality show or a gong show. It's not show business for ugly people. It's the arena where we define our common life in a rough and ready contest that has winners and losers.

Like everybody in show business, you think you're going to wake up one day, and it's all going to be taken away from you. I think we all share an insecurity in that way, everybody in show business - the ones I talk to, anyway.

On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married.

I'm much more aware of how distraught my father could be internally. That was normal to me - the obsession with work, the crazy hours - and when I watch it on screen I really see how enveloped he was by show business to the point where he didn't develop much of another life. Everything was show business to him.

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

There's show and there's business. Business is a whole other beat.

The literary aspect of the film business excites me, but show business in general doesn't take any mental giant.

I didn't plan on going into show business. Show business picked me. And it's been fun. One of the best things about being in show business is people think they know me, and they feel like they grew up with me.

I don't think any of us would be who we are if our parents weren't who they were. People that are in show business, and their parents are not in show business, their parents probably motivated them to get in show business.

The reality of show business - and I suppose a lot of businesses, but specifically show business - is that it is this business of 'no's.' It's mostly 'no's.'

If you are going to survive in business, show business or any business, then you have to be bold.

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

We need a president who realizes that there's no government business in show business.

I've done about everything in show business except to play on Broadway. I always hoped that I would one day. It's the World Series of show business. If anybody tells you they're not intimidated, they're lying.

In Hollywood they say there's no business like show business. In the hood they say there's no business like ho' business.

Hosting a show, even a talk show or a game show, there's so much business you have to conduct. There's so much guiding you have to do.

I think the thing that I wish somebody would ask me is just to ask about the business side of the radio show. I feel like I actually work very hard to make sure the business side of the radio show runs, and no one has any interest in how a public radio show is run. And rightly so.

There's a lot of people in show business who have show business parents.

I want to show that you can be just as amazing as labels and compete as a business and work as a business even though you're an artist.

There is no business like show business, Irving Berlin once proclaimed, and thirty years ago he may have been right, but not anymore. Nowadays almost every business is like show business, including politics, which has become more like show business than show business is.

I want to stay in show business; if show business will have me. Still I'd like people to know that I can do something without wearing bib overalls.

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

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.

There's a beauty of show business. It's the only business you can have a career in when you're dead.