Entertainment Business Quotes

• 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.

  Dennis Farina

  Reality, Long, Entertainment

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• It's tough because a lot of my friends in normal life, a lot of my friends in the entertainment business, and a lot of my friends in the wrestling business are gay. Just to say something spiteful and hurtful, I don't get it... if it was true and I was gay, I'd embrace it, and I'd tell you guys about it and I'd celebrate it.

  Hulk Hogan

  Wrestling, Gay, Guy

  "Hulk Hogan Responds To Gay Rumors On ‘The Wendy Williams Show’". www.huffingtonpost.com. February 09, 2012.

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• 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.

  Candace Cameron

  Mom, Dad, Next

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I have been very fortunate in [the entertainment] business, and I am very grateful for that. I wish the same for everyone out there, especially everyone who dares to dream.

  Jorja Fox

  Dream, Grateful, Ambition

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• I've never considered myself a celebrity or even part of the entertainment business. I'm a cooking teacher.

  Martin Yan

  Teacher, Business, Cooking

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• The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Entertainment, Ends

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People are always saying that Hollywood messes up kids. I'm like, 'No, families mess up kids!' I grew up in Hollywood, and I'm perfectly fine. If my children want to go into the entertainment business, I won't stop them, as long as they're passionate about it.

  Tori Spelling

  Children, Kids, Long

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• We are in the entertainment business and we all know if you are top of the tree you get the big money. Those of us who have been in it are the fortunate ones but we understand that we probably don't deserve it as much as the nurses or teachers.

  Gary Lineker

  Teacher, Nurse, Tree

  "They think it's all overpaid: Gary Lineker blasts footballers' big wages". www.mirror.co.uk. February 18, 2012.

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• 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.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Moving, People, Inspire

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• Chart positions aren't the be all and end all.

  Chris Lowe

  Ends, Position

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• I started The McCoys in 1962, so I'm approaching my 40th year in the entertainment business.

  Rick Derringer

  Years, Entertainment

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

  Brian Lumley

  Giving, Entertainment, Host

  "His Vampires Do a Lot More Than Just Suck". Interview with Paula Guran, www.brianlumley.com.

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• 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.

  Lionel Richie

  People, Want, Siege

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I like the fact that now my understanding for entertainment and the entertainment business is completely different from what it was when I first came in. I get the business side of it.

  Kevin Hart

  Understanding, Different, Firsts

  "Kevin Hart Talks ABOUT LAST NIGHT, Edging out Other Romantic Comedies, Pushing the Envelope, Balancing Comedy and Drama, and Improvising on Set". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 24, 2013.

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• It concerns me when people frame the conversation about equal pay about the entertainment business. I don't want the wage gap issue to be viewed as this myopic problem, because it's not. It's in 98 percent of all businesses, and it's easy for people to dismiss this conversation when they think it's around white women entertainers. But this is about all women in America.

  Patricia Arquette

  Thinking, Equal Pay, White

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.

  Ice Cube

  Giving, Entertainment, Want

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• There are no rules in the entertainment business.

  Zakk Wylde

  Entertainment

  Source: www.legendaryrockinterviews.com

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• For the past 32 years, I've done nothing outside the entertainment business. I've had some real highs and some real lows, but I love the work so much that I never once thought of quitting.

  Meat Loaf

  Real, Past, Years

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• You can never really justify wages in the entertainment business, but it is what it is.

  Gary Lineker

  Wages, Entertainment, Justify

  "Gary Lineker: I accept many people think my £2million BBC salary is too much". British GQ Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. August 04, 2014.

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• Professional football is a job and it's in the entertainment business.

  John Riggins

  Football, Jobs, Entertainment

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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

  Matthew Weiner

  Lasts, Entertainment, Shows

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For many of the most powerful people in the entertainment business, hostility to organized religion goes so deep and burns so intensely that they insist on expressing that hostility, even at the risk of financial disaster.

  Michael Medved

  Christian, Religious, Powerful

  Michael Medved (1992). “Hollywood vs. America: popular culture and the war on traditional values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• 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.

  Marie Osmond

  Blessed, Years, Age

  "What I see in the mirror" by Marie Osmond, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2012.

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• We are able to help animals all around the world as a result of the media and entertainment business, which is able to spread compassion and change at rapid speed.

  Katie Cleary

  Animal, Compassion, Media

  "Katie Cleary, President and Founder of Peace 4 Animals: Get Proactive!". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It's almost a standard tactic, really, to try to minimize any effort that people in the entertainment business or in any public occupation make to express themselves.

  Viggo Mortensen

  People, Effort, Trying

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