Words matter. These are the best Entertainment Business Quotes from famous people such as Billy Eichner, Joseph Kosinski, Adrien Broner, Barry Diller, Julie Plec, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I was obsessed with award shows and made charts and graphs and stuff when I was 7 years old. I found the entertainment business hilarious, ridiculous, and alluring – and my parents supported it, for better or worse.
But I grew up in a place where no one knew anyone in the entertainment business, I never knew it was an actual career. The closest I ever got to movies was going to watch them, and I thought that’s the way it would be, so I never considered working in this business.
I want to do things that no one has ever done inside the ring and outside the ring as a boxer and further my career in the entertainment business after I’m done with boxing.
I was obsessed with award shows and made charts and graphs and stuff when I was 7 years old. I found the entertainment business hilarious, ridiculous, and alluring – and my parents supported it, for better or worse.
The entertainment business hasn’t had a new idea in years.
The funny thing about the entertainment business is that we all feel like kids playing in a candy store, but we are entrusted with millions and millions and millions of dollars and an entire industry that can thrive or die on whether or not we do our jobs well or not.
We are in the the entertainment business, and we all know if you are top of the tree, you get big money.
Having your hands up doesn’t stop you from getting knocked out and there are a lot of advantages to having your hands down. It’s also more exciting because it looks very impressive from the fans’ perspective, which is a big factor in the entertainment business.
We have rights in America. In tandem with those rights, we have responsibility. Whatever type of journalist we are, whether it be in the entertainment business, or as professional journalists, we always have the consequences of the way we present fact and information.
I’m starting to understand why certain people in the entertainment business reach a point where they say, ‘I’m not going to do any more interviews.’ I definitely understand that.
As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.
Since I’m in the entertainment business, I think I have to hold a mirror up to myself and say, ‘Am I complicit in miseducating and misinforming our youth by participating in this business, or can I use this business to re-educate and uplift?’
The highest levels of fame in the entertainment business are geared toward keeping the artist disconnected, disinterested and continuing to make product and not developing any sort of ‘normal life.’
Michael Eisner let it be known last week that he had no intention of leaving the entertainment business once he steps down as CEO of Disney in October.
My mom and dad – they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn’t the end-all. They weren’t out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about ‘What can we do as a family.’
Standup is really the only thing in the entertainment business that you do totally alone.
Los Angeles is a one-horse town. It’s entirely driven by the entertainment business and that’s what it is.
What people don’t realize is that this is the entertainment business.
At a young age I always had an entrepreneurial spirit. So I’m trying to develop things on my own, too, and there are a couple things that have absolutely nothing to do with the entertainment business that I’m trying to tackle. We’ll just sort of see.
My mom and dad – they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn’t the end-all. They weren’t out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about ‘What can we do as a family.’
The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.
There are a lot of actors who try to get records made and try to make record deals, and everybody goes, ‘Ugh.’ It used to be expected in the entertainment business. I mean look at Sinatra, Bing Crosby. All these guys started out as singers.
Nothing surprises me when it comes to people in the entertainment business.
We’re in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.
At a young age I always had an entrepreneurial spirit. So I’m trying to develop things on my own, too, and there are a couple things that have absolutely nothing to do with the entertainment business that I’m trying to tackle. We’ll just sort of see.
I realize that the majority of people in the entertainment business happen to be Democrats. I have no problem with that. And they should have no problem with the fact that I’m a Republican.
I’ve never considered myself a celebrity or even part of the entertainment business. I’m a cooking teacher.
I’d just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business.
We live in a society that has ever-changing values and ever-changing standards and ever-changing criteria to determine who is a superstar or not. If you want to be a superstar, if you want to main event, if you want to profit in the entertainment business, you have to go with those trends and spearhead new trends.
I want to do things that no one has ever done inside the ring and outside the ring as a boxer and further my career in the entertainment business after I’m done with boxing.
I learned a long time ago: You’re in the entertainment business. You’re not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.
Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can’t fool anybody into buying a record.
The entertainment business can’t thrive without putting you in a box.
We’re in the entertainment business.
I can’t work all day and then go home and hang out with the same people. I don’t want everything to revolve around the entertainment business. Yes, that’s my career, but it’s not my life.
I’m very expressive, but I’m also a very private person. It is so hard to be private in the entertainment business.
Anyone in the entertainment business, respectively, is a show-off.
I was 21 and thinking, ‘When this ‘Head Of The Class’ boat ride ends, I don’t want to fade off into the sunset. I want to keep working. I want to be involved in the entertainment business.’
Everyone in the entertainment business gets crappy contracts when we start out, and into the middle of our careers. It’s the nature of the business.
I feel blessed – I am a woman who has been able to work in the entertainment business for five decades. I don’t want to age, but I would never take back a year for the wisdom I’ve gained in that time.
My #1 job as a thriller author is to give readers the best white-knuckle thrill ride I am capable of. I am first and foremost in the entertainment business. If that suspenseful ride is also terrifying because it hits really close to home, then I am once again doing what I am supposed to do as a thriller author.
In the entertainment business, everybody is desperately insecure, and the guys in Silicon Valley seem to be slightly overconfident.
At the end of the day, it is about taking care of your family. Going out and doing the job like Stevie Ray would say, to the best of your ability until something better comes along. I say that because it’s very simple; we are all in the entertainment business.
Exactly when people are in turmoil is the time that the entertainment business has always been at its best. Because people don’t want to be reminded every day that they are under siege, or that they’re not having a great time of life.
My reasons for getting into the entertainment business weren’t entirely selfless. Hollywood as an industry can at times be insular and doesn’t understand the market very well. I saw an opportunity in that fact.
We’re in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.
You got to learn when to be the bigger person, especially in the entertainment business.
I’ve always believed my success in the entertainment business is an inevitability. You have to believe that; you have to be an optimist.
The climate in the ’50s and ’60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.
I’m starting to understand why certain people in the entertainment business reach a point where they say, ‘I’m not going to do any more interviews.’ I definitely understand that.
Exactly when people are in turmoil is the time that the entertainment business has always been at its best. Because people don’t want to be reminded every day that they are under siege, or that they’re not having a great time of life.
I’ve always believed my success in the entertainment business is an inevitability. You have to believe that; you have to be an optimist.
After 2012, I’m pretty much out of the media and entertainment business. But yes, I was the outsider and no, it wasn’t a handicap. To me, it was a blessing in disguise.
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