That’s what show business is, sincere insincerity.
I only got into show business because I quit football.
Show business is my life.
I’ve been famous for years through my entertainment programs, through my show business activities and my business.
This is show business. I know that winning is super important and a gameplan is super important, but at some point you have to, this is the hurt business and you gotta to try to put your opponent out.
I love performing, but I never really liked show business. My success is my family. I want to be more successful as a mother.
When I was 9 years old, I really wanted to be in the show business. I really wanted to be an artist. I would grab a wooden spoon and I would start singing, even if it was for my uncles and my aunts. And I would just sing any lah-lah song.
True friendships don’t fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.
I started out as an actor, where you seek to understand yourself using the words of great writers and collaborating with other creative people. Then I slid into show business, where you seek only an audience’s approval whether you deserve it or not.
I’m an introvert at heart… And show business – even though I’ve loved it so much – has always been hard for me.
Am I a homophobe? Look, I work in show business. I am awash in gay people, as colleagues and as friends.
Show business has always been my life. I love it. I’ve shared the ups and downs. So it will still be my life. It is a big piece of your life because this is all you know. It just seems like it takes you to such great heights in your life.
Show business is part of a larger culture, a world-wide culture that must make up to the fact that the accumulation of things doesn’t make a life necessary any happier or purposeful.
I’m a showgirl. After 20 years in show business, I’ve learned to roll with the punches.
I’m fortunate that I’m employed. And if you’re in show business, of course, every night you go to bed and go, oh my god, tomorrow I’ll never, ever work again.
Sitcom is the best gig in show business because it’s easy hours, nine to five.
I believe most people don’t go into show business unless they’ve been majorly unloved as a child.
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.
Imitation is the sincerest form of show business.
Show business is not conducive to mental stability. It’s a constant rollercoaster of adrenaline spikes and devastating let-downs. There’s something about seeing a face from the telly in real life that makes people deranged.
My history in show business spans over a quarter of a century, and I have seen many people in the industry struggle with coming out, only to find much more success after they finally did.
I looked at longevity in show business when I was about 13, and the people who seemed to have longevity were the ones who’d spent quite a bit of time learning about what they were doing before they made it.
I’ve got lots of great friends in show business, and that’s all they are. Great friends. I’ll never marry again – what’s the point? I had the best. I’ve got friends all over the world, and that’s enough for me.
My name was originally John Collins, but I just didn’t think it had the flair I needed. I found out the poet laureate of Poland was named Krasinski and so it seemed like a shoe-in for show business.
I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn’t have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn’t want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in 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.
I’ve made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you’re in a movie and you think, ‘I wish more people saw that’ – because you’re good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that’s show business.
I guess it turns out choosing your life partner from a group of men trying to get their break in show business by sitting around shirtless in a swimming pool while cameras watch around the clock isn’t the path to a soulmate after all.
So the English approach to show business and their work is more – and this is a big generalization, I hasten to say – but it’s more, they work on it as a craft job.
Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.
You can laugh at me, but I understand show business.
I grew up in show business, so I always knew I was going to be a dancer or a performer. I knew that was my business.
I was thrilled as a kid to point out my sister as she danced and sang on the stage, and she was pretty good artistically. She was a great inspiration to me. She was the one who sort of led me into show business.
I’m from New York; I’ve been in show business all my life. I’m a wild and crazy gal, yet I always play these soft, warm, loving earth mothers. It’s a pain in the butt. I’m a femme fatale!
I taught myself computer. Then Macintosh came along, and it became a really bad addiction. If I wasn’t in show business, I’d have pocket protectors growing out of my chest. I do everything on it. It’s kinda sick.
What’s so wonderful about football and business and show business is that every time I start thinking I’m special, I get knocked on my ass.
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.
It’s a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that’s what it takes to be in show 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.
Of course in show business there are two ways to play it and I am not politically correct so I am not going to get endorsements or anything like that.
I had tremendous success in show business – star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. ‘The Apprentice’ was one of the most successful shows.
Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business.
I just went to Harvard a little while, because I graduated from Armstrong High School in Washington and then I went up there but I didn’t stay that long because I went into show business.
I wrote a little autobiography about how luck has to do with everything. It’s called ‘My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business.’ A publisher came to me and said, ‘Write a book,’ so I did. I wanted to call it ‘Everybody Else Has Got a Book.’
I was supposed to go to Northwestern and become a dental hygienist, get married, have babies. My father was very against me being in show business. Usually in Chinese culture, education is the most highly valued.
Magic is the oldest part of the show business profession. It can now be used as a forward-thinking tool to build a child’s confidence. It has been an amazing part in many entertainers’ lives, including Steve Martin and the late Johnny Carson.
Yeah, there was a six-year period where I was pretty much done with show business. During college and then for about two years after college.
I understand that show business people can wear the public a bit thin when it comes to politics. I know they wear me thin.
I don’t read anything about my movies before or after I do films, or any part of show business. I think that keeps me in a kind of place where I can do the work that I need to do.
The first rule of show business is get off the stage while people still want more.
I never thought much about success early on. I only thought about being a comedian – or just being in show business, is really more accurate.
Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.
I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.
I never knew any Jews until I got into show business. I’ve found them to be real smart and good workers.
If you can survive ‘Saturday Night Live,’ then you’re good as far as show business is concerned.
In my heart and soul, I always knew that I wanted to be in show business.
A woman in show business isn’t honest with herself… so how can she be honest with another woman? We are, all of us, acting every minute of the day and night.
I always smoked cigars. I’ve smoked cigars with everybody in show business.
If you want to provide for your family, maybe show business is not a high degree of success. You will need to keep your day job until you make it, and know it’s an odds thing just like the NFL. I personally wouldn’t recommend anybody to go into this business.
One thing I can take credit for, along with the rest of show business, is when the red ribbons were out, we cured AIDS. Any advancements that came towards fighting AIDS were not done by scientists or doctors – it was people with little ribbons on their lapels.
