Top 1200 Show Business Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

In show business, you get chewed up and spit out.

People who go into show business are screwed up.

Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.

I'd love to do situation comedy - it's the best job in show business.

Is it hard to make a living in show business? Yeah.

Martha Stewart convinced me to have a business. She sometimes takes a very personal interest, and she kept saying, 'You have to open your own business,' and gave me chances. She took my cakes on 'The Oprah Winfrey Show.' I met a lot of people through her.

A lot of people in show business don't know what I'm capable of doing.

My business is not to show anybody anything; my job is just to do it.

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

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

I never mention my size when I'm after a job in show business.

I've always learned in show business: you take the job.

In show business, more showgirls are kept than promises.

In show business, generally you don't retire. If you love it, that is, you're in it forever anyway.

I knew early in life that I wanted a show business career.

Show business is and has always been a depraved carnival.

In my opinion, life is more important than show business.

I love show business. It's my life, honey, and I try to enjoy it.

You simply have to love show business to make the risk worthwhile.

In show business, everyone loves a comeback story.

My father was adamant in his disapproval of my interest in show business.

It is not his business to argue men into faith, for that cannot be done; but it is his business to demonstrate the intellectual adequacy of the biblical faith and the comparative inadequacy of its rivals, and to show the invalidity of the criticisms that are brought against it. This he seeks to do, not from any motive of intellectual self-justification, but for the glory of God and His gospel.

In show business, never underestimate the power of saying "no".

Politics is just show business for ugly people.

I thought success in show business was everything. It isn't. I don't know what is.

You can't be a kid in show business. You will not survive.

I work in show business - there's nothing that shocks me anymore!

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

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

If I'd married someone in show business, there'd be too much competition.

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

Now, there is no business like show business, and there is no publicity like word of mouth. What is word of mouth, you may ask? Well, word of mouth is gold to Hollywood bigwigs, and it equates to box office bonanzas and hit TV shows.

Ever since I was a child, I was fascinated by show business, the theater.

How anybody expects a man to stay in business with every two-bit wowser in the country claiming a veto over what we can say and can't say and what we can show and what we can't show - it's enough to make you throw up. The whole principle is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.

It's always bittersweet when you have a show that you own, that's against you. It's against one of our favorite comedies for NBC. And yes, that's part of the business model. House was on the Fox network for a number of years and was such a great business for the NBC-owned studio. That's part of what we're also trying to build. Hopefully, Mindy will help do that for us.

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

In my heart and soul, I always knew that I wanted to be in show business.

I was blessed to grow up with parents who weren't enamored of show business.

Really, Mr. Lincoln, I have had enough of this show business.

I like show business - performing. I can't think of anything better.

Sitcoms are what got me excited about show business.

I don't like show business. I don't like the business. I love acting. I love this. I love talking to people.

Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.

Once you've been around this business long enough, anything is a possibility. It's a business first and foremost. Guys play it because they love it, but it is a business, and if you don't understand that it's a business, you're lying to yourself.

My parents weren't involved in show business, but my parents would show me. We'd watch old films in the house. Little film festivals of Westerns and stuff like that when I was a kid. I knew I wanted to be those guys in those movies before I knew what being an actor was.

Show business is, essentially, a fear-based industry.

I came from a real working-class show business family.

I only got into show business because I quit football.

It never dawned on me I would do anything but show business.

Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.

It's hard in this business to get the opportunities to show off range.

I love the challenge of show business. It keeps me on my toes.

In show business, you had levels. I was at the top of the TV end of it.

It always seems to someone outside the business that it is very difficult to write for a comedy show because it must be done quickly. Actually, it is much easier to write this humor than to do a joke or a show from scratch, because the audience knows the plot. Just mention what is going on and then deliver the punch line.

I don't know how people get into show business if their family's not in it.

Boxing is just show business with blood.

Outside of show business, I live a normal life.

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

Show business got really tainted for me.

I'm in the entertainment business, where you're only as good as your last show.