Show Business Quotes - Page 10

• I was the class clown, you know, that kind of thing, and I gathered around me a group of guys who also were silly. I was in all the plays and everything. But I don't know, at that time show businesses looked like the moon, you know, it was so far away. I wanted to be a radio announcer.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Silly, Moon, Class

  "Dick Van Dyke Discusses His Career in Entertainment". "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. September 22, 2000.

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• My wife, as proud as she was of me, hated show business for good reasons. There was something about the spouse always being pushed out of the way, shoved aside. She wanted to get away from it.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Wife, Proud, Way

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• I wrote a little autobiography about how luck has to do with everything. It's called "My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business." A publisher came to me and said write a book so I did. I wanted to call it "Everybody Else Has Got a Book."

  Dick Van Dyke

  Book, Writing, Luck

  "Dick Van Dyke - At 87, Life is Better Than Ever!". Interview with Pat Gallagher, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 11, 2013.

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• I'm the fourth generation to be in show business. It's pretty neat; it's nice to have that family history.

  Rachel Bilson

  Nice, Generations, Family History

  "Rachel Bilson Talks ‘Hart Of Dixie,’ Kugel And Justin Bieber" by Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2011.

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• I'm not all that enthralled by show business, and I'm not that much of a highbrow.

  Dick Cavett

  Shows

  Dick Cavett, Christopher Porterfield (1974). “Cavett”

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• In Hollywood they say there's no business like show business. In the hood they say there's no business like ho' business.

  Curtis Jackson

  Hollywood, Hood, Shows

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am not an educated person. I didn't come up through a ballet company. I came up through burlesque. So I have a lot of inferiority feelings concerning my own lack of education, my entry into show business. I'm not a Baryshnikov. I'm not a Nureyev. I came up in vaudeville. Strippers. So I've always had these feelings. But I think they've also helped me.

  Bob Fosse

  Thinking, Feelings, Ballet

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• In show business, if you make a mistake, you can do it over again.

  Bobby Sherman

  Mistake, Shows, Can Do

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• People don't turn away from an attorney sitting in a wheelchair. If the guy has got the reputation for being the best attorney around, that's who you go with. But in show business, for some reason they're still reluctant to say an attorney or a physician or an interior decorator can be in a chair, or on crutches, or blind or any of the other things.

  Gerald McRaney

  People, Guy, Physicians

  Source: www.abilitymagazine.com

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• I was so happy I didn't have to work that night. That was the truth, because show business is about the hardest profession in the world.

  Elaine Stritch

  Night, World, Truth Is

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• If you are going into show business for money and power, forget it! It won't happen. You don't go for that first.

  John Travolta

  Firsts, Forget, Money And Power

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• People in show business who are interested in politics, like Ronald Reagan, fare so well because they do know the magic of dealing with the public. This is something that can't be taught in a book. If they can produce after they've won over the public. If you can live up to your ballyhoo, you've got it made.

  Liberace

  Book, People, Magic

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• Liverpool really ever since I can remember, but anyway in the '50s and '60s was always a place where people were potentially in show business, knew someone who was, would like to be, had been but were now doing something else and there was a general recreational feeling in the air at all times.

  Derek Taylor

  Air, People, Feelings

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• I always say that I love magic but I hate magicians. I like being fooled. If you wave your hands in front of my face and I think you're doing a trick, I'm easily impressed. If you pull a quarter out of my ear, I'm quite certain you're a wizard. But I don't like the way most magicians don't act like they're magical; they act like show business dicks.

  Greg Behrendt

  Hate, Thinking, Hands

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• Think well of yourself and others will too. Unless those others are in government, banking, or show business.

  Bob Saget

  Thinking, Government, Banking

  Twitter post from Jun 22, 2013

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• I heard a quote once in a documentary about a band that said you're better off owning everything 100 percent and selling 20,000 copies of an album than signing with a record company and selling a million copies. There has never been a truer statement about show business than that.

  Bill Burr

  Documentaries, Albums, Band

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• I'm not even worried about settling down. I think it's way too early. I'm 25 and I'm in show business. I mean, if things go well, my wife hasn't even been born yet.

  Arj Barker

  Mean, Thinking, Wife

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• I was the worst bricklayer in the world. I can show you buildings I worked on - they're a hazard. I closed a window one time. I forgot to set back a brick and I just kept going - there I was singing 'There's no business like show business'.

  Pat Cooper

  Singing, Hazards, World

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• If I'd married someone in show business, there'd be too much competition.

  Dolly Parton

  Competition, Too Much, Married

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• All these kids in Hollywood, the people born and raised out here, their parents are all in show business, and that's why I think we're good. That's why we're on top of the game now because we were born in it.

  Pauly Shore

  Kids, Thinking, Games

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• None of my family had anything to do with show business, my life was totally foreign to them.

  Gloria Gaynor

  My Family, Shows

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• Growing up in Mississippi, I was such a farmer, and it's not desirable to bring attention to yourself. That's my nature, and all of a sudden, I'm in show business.

  Mac McAnally

  Growing Up, Attention, Farmers

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• It's a pain in the ass, show business. And the only time that I really enjoy it is when I'm in front of an audience and they're reacting to me.

  Elaine Stritch

  Pain, Ass, Reacting

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Nice, Cancer, Cutting

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. July 16, 2009.

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• My name was originally John Collins, but I just didn't think it had the flair I needed. I found out the poet laureate of Poland was named Krasinski and so it seemed like a shoe-in for show business.

  John Krasinski

  Thinking, Names, Shoes

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