Entertainment Industry Quotes

• It's very easy to confuse Sean Connery with James Bond. Sometimes in the entertainment industry, people believe the cake is more real than the baker.

  Judd Nelson

  Real, Believe, Cake

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

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• People love gossip. It's the biggest thing that keeps the entertainment industry going.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Gossip, People, Entertainment

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• I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Doe, Entertainment, Industry

  "Christopher Isherwood, The Art of Fiction No. 49". Interview with W.I. Scobie, www.theparisreview.org. Spring 1974.

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• Nowadays, people in the entertainment industry can have a louder voice than politicians, and I think its important that they use that voice to say something positive or to give a voice to somebody thats had theirs taken away.

  Serinda Swan

  Taken, Thinking, Voice

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• When you have a vision, you have to see it through, and you can make anything happen. You really can, especially in this [entertainment ] industry.

  Chelsea Handler

  Vision, Entertainment, Happens

  Source: variety.com

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• I want to go to Sierra Leone with something - whether it's some sort of contribution to healthcare, or to the entertainment industry. My cousin is a nurse; we are talking about opening a clinic.

  Idris Elba

  Cousin, Talking, Nurse

  "The god in Idris Elba". Interview with Afua Hirsch, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2011.

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• Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.

  Allan Bloom

  Music, Children, Silver Platter

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• I want to direct, write, produce... y'know, I love the entertainment industry

  Jason Marsden

  Writing, Want, Entertainment

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• It is frustrating to be a Black woman in the entertainment industry.

  Dionne Warwick

  Black, Entertainment, Frustrating

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• When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.

  Alanis Morissette

  Order, Trying, Entertainment

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• This is the entertainment industry, so game designers have to have a creative mind and also have to be able to stand up against the marketing people at their company - otherwise they cannot be creative. There are not that many people who fit that description.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Games, People, Creative

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• I've helped some of my classmates on how to strategize to get to the next level of their businesses. And it's interesting, because here I am sitting there from the entertainment industry and the fashion industry, and I'm giving a billionaire that has a business that's been in his family for 300 years - I'm giving him advice about strategy!

  Tyra Banks

  Fashion, Years, Here I Am

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• We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an actor.

  Lance Bass

  Musician, Actors, Want

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• To be in the music industry, to be in any kind of entertainment industry, you really, really have to be passionate about it and love it and persevere, because if that passion isn't there, it's easy to give up. If you really want it, the ambition is there, it'll come. It's definitely harder work than some people think.

  Alexandra Chando

  Giving Up, Ambition, Passion

  "Talent and The Lying Game Star Alexandra Chando Admits She Totally Watches Gossip Girl and Vampire Diaries". Interview with Haley Longman, www.clevver.com. April 29, 2011.

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• In the entertainment industry all that anybody wants to do whether it's music or stories or dancing or comedy or whatever, they want to entertain the public. And they do it any way they can. Sometimes they concentrate simply on entertaining people and they don't care what message they are giving.

  Stan Lee

  People, Giving, Dancing

  Source: wwd.com

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• Some of the most morally conscious, kindest, most compassionate people are in the entertainment industry, people who want to affect the world and make it a better place through telling human, heartfelt stories.

  Rainn Wilson

  People, Heartfelt, Stories

  "Rainn Wilson talks about Hollywood, his family and the Baha'i Faith". U.S. Baha'i News Interview, news.bahai.org. May 24, 2007.

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• The entertainment industry as a whole has given more thought to the pollution of rivers than it has to the pollution of minds.

  Ken Auletta

  Rivers, Mind, Entertainment

  Ken Auletta (2011). “The Highwaymen: Warriors of the Information Superhighway”, p.107, Random House

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• I think that the Internet is going to effect the most profound change on the entertainment industries combined. And we're all gonna be tuning into the most popular Internet show in the world, which will be coming from some place in Des Moines. We're all gonna lose our jobs. We're all gonna be on the Internet trying to find an audience.

  Steven Spielberg

  Jobs, Thinking, Profound

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

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• I think that the entertainment industry itself has a history of chasing success. Any time a hit product comes out, all the other companies start chasing after that success and trying to recreate it by putting out similar products.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Thinking, Trying, Entertainment

  "E3 Interview: Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto". Interview with Chris Kohler, www.wired.com. July 19, 2007.

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• You and I and everybody in show business and the entertainment industry fly by the seat of our pants. We don't know quite what is going to happen.

  William Shatner

  Pants, Entertainment, Shows

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• The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.

  Dan Glickman

  People, Creative, Entertainment

  "US teenager faces jail for film piracy". www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2005.

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• I think in a weird way that the entertainment industry is strangely more brutally honest than any other.

  Donal Logue

  Thinking, Way, Entertainment

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

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• I think fun is an important part of the entertainment industry, and it should be. Anybody who's not incorporating some of that into their work needs to take a break, go away, and have an attitude adjustment.

  Diane Lane

  Fun, Attitude, Thinking

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 7, 2010.

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• That's how it always is in the entertainment industry, your feet are always treading Jello.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Feet, Hollywood, Jello

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• Everything that happens on Wall Street only fortifies my opinion that there is in fact a more ludicrous industry than the entertainment industry.

  Michael Shannon

  Wall, Facts, Entertainment

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