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!
My dad’s a lighting director. Growing up in Hollywood, I was around the entertainment industry all the time. I knew I’d end up in show business in some capacity, eventually.
This is show business, and there’s room for the shows and the personalities. But I think there’s also room for music, for people to play music, and there seems to be an audience developing that’s willing to go listen to music again, rather than just be blown away by drum machines and choreography.
I was brought up to do my duty. Not to be vain, not to shout from the rooftops about my virtues – to be modest and well-behaved. I’m totally wrong for show business.
Creative people don’t behave very well generally. If you’re looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you’re gonna be depressed real fast. I don’t have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She’s my first priority.
I never wanted to be in the show business. I wanted to do special effects.
I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn’t like it a bit.
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.’
The theatre show-biz types don’t change much, no matter what era we’re in. The question of how you balance being in show business with your personal life isn’t very different.
I’m just a giddy teenager who would like to break into show business any way I can.
Stephen A. Smith is the hardest-working man in sports show business. The ubiquitous basketball pundit appears on ESPN about 10 times a day as a regular on the show ‘NBA Fastbreak,’ a guest commentator on ‘Sports Center,’ and a pundit on ‘ESPNEWS.’
There’s no damn business like show business – you have to smile to keep from throwing up.
I am interested in a lot of things – not just show business and my passion for animals. I try to keep current in what’s going on in the world. I do mental exercises. I don’t have any trouble memorizing lines because of the crossword puzzles I do every day to keep my mind a little limber. I don’t sit and vegetate.
I love every aspect of show business and that includes both the show part of it and the business part of it.
There’s no job in show business that’s harder than any other job outside show business.
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.
If there’s anything in life you consider worthwhile achieving – go for it. I was told many times to forget show business – I had nothing going for me. But I pursued it, anyway. Voila!
I’m celebrating my 40th year in show business this year.
Politics is just show business for ugly people.
There are some people in show business who are proud of the number of marriages they’ve had.
I think it’s a terrible shame that politics has become show business.
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.
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. And I think that’s a really dangerous, limiting mindset.
Even though I was in close proximity to everything, it never really dawned on me to pursue a career in show business.
I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we’re a show business family and we all work.
I was blessed to grow up with parents who weren’t enamored of show business.
A lot of my close friends are nothing to do with show business. But the people I’ve had relationships with, invariably, I’ve worked with. I think that’s probably because I grew up in a family where we all worked together, so it’s something I feel comfortable with.
I think maybe one reason why ventriloquists are looked down on is because it’s very difficult to be funny. I think what happens is that people get a dummy, they learn the technique of ventriloquism, they memorize the script, they think they’re in show business.
One of the things about working on stage – actually, about working in show business, that is – is that it’s such a collaborative effort. I suppose that everything in life is – every endeavor where people are able to be successful.
Heart is tied with a lot of controversies, a lot of heartbreaks in show business. With ‘Love Marie’ who I really am in the real world. I feel more free, I feel more clean. I feel like people don’t judge me, and that is why I shy away from being Heart when it comes to my painting.
The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch.
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.
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.
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.
In show business, you get chewed up and spit out.
I came from a real working-class show business family.
I don’t know how people get into show business if their family’s not in it.
I wanted to be in show business, and I was funny.
There’s no one I trust in show business more than Sabrina Wind. She’s my eyes and ears when I can’t be there. She weighs in on everything, from scripts to sets to advertising.
When I came back into show business in ’88 after spending 20-odd years in the civil service, it wasn’t planned.
Probably from, like, my freshman year of high school, I had this desire to perform and also be involved in the show business industry.
Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.
I don’t do the show business lifestyle, you’ll never see me rolling out of parties with a goody bag in my hand. My night out is a night in, with friends round for dinner.
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.
If you’re being attacked by something on the outside, which I feel a lot being in show business, you just have to dial it back and breathe and know that you are protected.
A lot of show business, as you know, is about all the contacts you make and who you know.
It was very important to me that I be my own person. That’s why I chose show business.
People who go into show business are screwed up.
Show business is all I know, but I love it.
I never called my work an ‘art’. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
I stayed in show business to pay for my animal business.
There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business.
Kids are brought into show business because they are cute and see truth and they’re very bright. But there’s a sense of doing it because you want the adults to be approving of you. You want to make them happy.
Show business is stale ideas and stale actors.
When I graduated from college I thought I was over with show business and was pursuing other things.
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.
All of us kids ended up ‘doing Mom.’ There are four of us who’ve tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance.
I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.
I want to do things I enjoy, and show business comes fifth or sixth down the line.
To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face.
In show business, you had levels. I was at the top of the TV end of it.
At the end of the day, it’s show business: you earn money to make money.
I’ll try anything. What are they gonna do, kick me out of show business?
I didn’t have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.
I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.
People who like to fume about the manner in which Disney changed beloved classics are often ignorant of history, not to mention the realities of show business.
I feel incredibly fortunate I walked away, took care of other business, and then came back to show business.
I knew what show business was, which was why I didn’t want in on that action. I saw what happens! You get it, and then you lose it.
