Show Business Quotes

• Politics is just show business for ugly people.

  Jay Leno

  Business, People, Ugly

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• Politics is show business for ugly people.

  Paul Begala

  People, Political, Ugly

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• There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.

  Billie Holiday

  Smile, Throwing Up, Damn

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• In show business the key word is honesty. Once you've learned to fake that, the rest is easy.

  George Burns

  Honesty, Business, Keys

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• It's show business. No show, no business.

  Dick Wolf

  Business, Shows

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

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• There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

  David Letterman

  Business, Office Work, Shows

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• Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.

  Martin Mull

  School, Shows, Paid

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• That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.

  Benny Hill

  Sincere, Insincerity, Shows

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

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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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• I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

  Walt Disney

  Life, Art, Entertainment

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• Show business is dog eat dog. It's worse than dog eat dog. It's dog doesn't return dog's phone calls.

  Woody Allen

  Dog, Phones, Return

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• 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.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Success, Politics

  Ronald Reagan, Mark J. Green, Gail MacColl (1983). “There he goes again: Ronald Reagan's reign of error”, Pantheon

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• America is a nation of 270 million people: 100 million of them are gangsters, another 100 million are hustlers, 50 million are complete lunatics, and every single one of us is secretly in show business. Isn't that fabulous?

  Tom Robbins

  Funny, Humorous, America

  Tom Robbins (2006). “Wild Ducks Flying Backward”, p.187, Bantam

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• Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offered to you.

  Tommy Steele

  Luck, Able, Shows

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• The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch.

  Tom Arnold

  Moving, People, Failing

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

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• Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.

  John Guare

  Business, Catholic, Promise

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• There's no business like show business.

  Irving Berlin

  Business, Office Work, Berlin

  Title of song (1946)

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• I don't like people who are in politics for themselves and not for others. You want that, you can go into show business.

  Elvis Presley

  Leadership, Business, People

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• Show business is like Champagne. You'll appreciate it more if you don't drink it everyday

  Jay Leno

  Appreciate, Car, Everyday

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• They do not love that do not show their love.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Marriage, Valentines Day

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Mr. Theobald (Lewis) (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.20

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• Golf is my profession Show business is just to pay the green fees.

  Bob Hope

  Golf, Green, Pay

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• I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

  Sydney Pollack

  Thinking, Nerd, Politics

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• Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.

  Anita Loos

  Business, Shows, Therapy

  Anita Loos (1974). “Kiss Hollywood good-by”, Viking Adult

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• I wanted to be a model; I wanted to be a nurse; I wanted to be so many things, almost anything but being part of show business.

  Shirley Bassey

  Nurse, Shows, Wanted

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• I don't mean to sound - I don't want it to come out funny, but I don't like show business. I love - I love acting in films. I love it.

  Gene Wilder

  Business, Mean, Acting

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

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