I love the challenge of show business. It keeps me on my toes.
There’s something about that idea of looking up and hoping, and thinking, ‘I’m good.’ Some things, like show business, are absolutely subjective. People look at a TV show and think, ‘I could do that.’ And maybe they could do that. But they’re not.
I just wanted to be in show business. I didn’t care if I was going to be an actor or a magician or what. Comedy was a point of the least resistance, really. And on the simplest level, I loved comedy.
I’m a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I’ve really had to decide what’s important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business.
Nowadays it seems more and more like the ‘business’ in ‘show business’ is underlined, and there are campaigns, and it’s all part of getting people in to see the movies.
Where I came from, the idea of going into show business was just ridiculous; in fact I didn’t tell anybody because I knew people would laugh at me. So I sort of snuck around and got some pictures and got a resume together and, of course, lied and said I did all kinds of things I didn’t do.
Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.
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.
I’m not all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.
I could’ve always worked shows, clubs, Las Vegas and Atlantic City, but I was successful in business ventures, and things weren’t happening in show business, so I said, ‘Let me see what I can do.’
Nobody in show business can possibly get away with making fun of their boss.
I do have to say, there is this incredible benefit to being older. I never thought I’d say that. I’ve figured out that show business isn’t the end-all. I thought I’d never be tired of Hollywood, of the experience, and I have to say there’s some relief. As you get older, your taste changes.
One cannot forget that show business also deals with humans. Everything is not so superficial that this is rigged or planned. Sometimes people do fall in love with each other because they spend a lot of time on the sets so much so the set becomes your first home, and your actual home becomes your second home.
It never dawned on me I would do anything but show business.
The kids don’t really have any part of my television life. Fortunately, there aren’t many times when show business intrudes on our family existence.
I’m in show business, and I’m an entertainer, but I also see myself as an artist doing social and spiritual work.
Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business. He loved it so much.
I tried to look presentable for a show, but not for sexual attraction. It was strictly for show business.
I think I’m lucky having parents that have been in show business for a while, and they don’t care about the shiny stuff so much. They raised me in that way – to stay grounded, not to chase the shiny, pretty things.
I’m very leery of show business, having been in Los Angeles for the last 10 years. Buzz is a dangerous thing that I’ve heard applied to a lot of people that I’ve since not heard of again.
There is more to life than show business.
I’m not sure if I’ve learned anything from show business. Life in general has taught me if you’re kind to people, everything gets easier. Being a decent person really smoothes the way for you and everyone else.
Corporate stand-up allowed me to make my own schedule and make money as if I was 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.
My life hasn’t been the norm. The most interesting parts are before I got into show business.
I’m certainly a real homebody. But the truth is that I understand that desire to, in a way, go join the circus. That’s what got me out of Long Island and into show business. I was like, ‘I’m just going to have an adventure. I want to be a person that isn’t surrounded by their mail and their cat.’
It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.
I’m in this business, man, and I honestly don’t know anything about show business at all. I don’t know how it works.
I said, ‘If I don’t play football for a living, I’m going to get into show business.’
My love life has never been of interest to people. Of course I have a love life; I have a real life outside of show business.
I’m very happy to be employed. I always contend that in show business that if you’re employed, then you’re successful.
I’ve seen up close what can happen when actors talk publicly about their relationships: their personal life gets dismantled. It’s a show business game, and it’s one game I won’t play.
I said, to hell with the whole thing, to hell with show business. I’m gonna make a new life for myself, and I got off drugs, completely kicked all that stuff.
I’m the fourth generation to be in show business. It’s pretty neat; it’s nice to have that family history.
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.
James Brown was the Monday-to-Friday guy. He was the hardest man in show business. He was like your dad and your uncle: He showed up, and he hit hard.
In New Jersey, judges have ruled that a same-sex couple or a single person applying to adopt must be given the same place in line as a married man and woman. I think that’s bad for kids. This makes me homophobic? I’m in show business. Half the people in my life are gay.
There was really a snobbery from people in film – they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.
America is so much more ‘show business.’ For instance, you have Barack Obama. We have Fredrik Reinfeldt. Everyone in the world knows Barack Obama!
The thing about people from Chicago and the Northwest suburbs is that they’re very cocky. I think that serves us well in the show business world.
There isn’t any more real show business.
I don’t read about myself, and I don’t read any magazine that has anything to do with movies or show business.
It’s true that in show business, a lot of times a producer will just not ever be there, not even be aware that a show is renewed or canceled.
Yes, I love the movie business. In fact, there’s no business like show business.
You didn’t have to know anything about show business to appreciate the characters’ humor, because at its heart, ‘Party Down’ was about following dreams, dealing with rejection, and surviving all the lame jobs we’ve all had to work just to get by in the meantime.
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.
If bad things are going to be said about me, I have to bear that. If I don’t understand that it’s part of being in show business, then I’d better go work in a bank.
Wrestling is a business, it is show business and wrestling championships are props.
You still have that competitive thing where you want to try to make hits. That won’t go away, unless the mayor of show business says my time’s up.
People shouldn’t get into show business because they want to become stars or become rich; they should get into it because they can’t help but put on a show.
I consider myself to be more real-sized than most of the actresses in California and in show business. They’re very small. They’re like miniature people.
The great thing about show business is that there’s no mandatory retirement age.
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.
A belief in God is vitally important, not just in show business, but stability in life. You know, to recognize deity is the most important thing that you can do. I mean, it comes to the Ten Commandments. They weren’t ten suggestions. They were Ten Commandments.
Sitcoms are what got me excited about show business.
I’ve always been pretty levelheaded. In show business, you need to have a certain internal stability.
I have accomplished my childhood dream: to be in show business. Everybody should be so lucky to have their dreams come true. I’ve been truly blessed.
I hope, what I hope the most is to be more successful as a mother than in show business, because to be a mother is the most difficult I will ever have to do.
I’ve been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act.
There is no doubt that diversity is a problem in show business and that this fight has been going on for a long time.
I grew up thinking of show business as a business.
Just because you’re working does not mean you’re making money. That’s two very different things in show business.
