Show Business Quotes - Page 12

• I'm not in show business; I'm in the communications business. That's what it's about for me.

  Richie Havens

  Communication, Shows, Havens

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• If you're a car salesman, and someone says "This is a terrible car, I'm not buying it," it doesn't mean they hate you. They just don't like your product. I think that's a mistake a lot of people in show business make.. they're so tied to their act they take everything personally.

  Jay Leno

  Hate, Mistake, Mean

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• A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

  Alexander Herzen

  Business, Ambition, Views

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• Most of the people I know in show business don't need anybody pushing them at all. They're extremely aggressive.

  Helen Reddy

  People, Needs, Pushing

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• There's nobody in show business that I dislike so I wouldn't want to get in there to hurt anybody.

  Robert Goulet

  Hurt, Feelings, Want

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• Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.

  Don Rickles

  Kids, Controversial, Provocative

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• I love the challenge of show business. It keeps me on my toes.

  Henry Darrow

  Challenges, Toes, Shows

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• I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit.

  Shirley Bassey

  Age, Retiring, Shows

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• What happened was, my parents after Circus Boy decided to take me out of show business for two years to go back to normal school. It was the smartest thing they ever did.

  Micky Dolenz

  School, Boys, Years

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• Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along.

  Marc Maron

  Mind Your Own Business, Ego, Soul

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• I just wanted to be in show business. I didn't care if I was going to be an actor or a magician or what. Comedy was a point of the least resistance, really. And on the simplest level, I loved comedy.

  Steve Martin

  Magic, Actors, Levels

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• I didn't think before that I'd done enough to justify publishing an autobiography but after 40 years in show business I'm now ready to tell my story.

  Cilla Black

  Thinking, Years, Stories

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

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• I have a girlfriend, but I don't really want to talk about her. I won't name her. She isn't in show business, has nothing to do with it. So I'd rather just keep her out of it.

  Luke Perry

  Girlfriend, Names, Want

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

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• I think one of the most difficult challenges in show business is the challenge of longevity and to constantly realize and reveal what's already been there - like doing stage and singing and dancing in New York. I haven't been that far out of my comfort zone in a while.

  Blair Underwood

  New York, Business, Thinking

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• Benedict Cumberbatch is not only the best name in show business, it's also the response you get when you ask John Travolta to pronounce Ben Affleck.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Names, Oscars, Shows

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• I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gather behind you and help you to succeed in any way possible.

  Wally George

  Kids, Average, Different

  Wally George (1999). “Wally George: The Father of Combat TV”, Seven Locks Press

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• All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel ... and that's what I've been doing all my life.

  Count Basie

  Bigs, Shows, Wanted

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• [On daughter Liza Minnelli] I think she decided to go into show business when she was an embryo, she kicked so much.

  Judy Garland

  Daughter, Mother, Thinking

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

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• Never mind the transience of show business and popularity. When we hear Ray Charles, we go, 'That's a great singer.' You don't need a reporter or a writer to tell us. Good is good and it should shine through the years.

  Art Garfunkel

  Years, Shining, Mind

  "Art Garfunkel: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 21, 2011.

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• After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavours and from there it just blossomed. I have always had to have an outlet for my creativity and when my life became more about raising my family than the bright lights of show business exploring my photo art was a great outlet for me.

  Angela Cartwright

  Photography, Art, Creativity

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• It's too much show business and too much prompting, too much artificiality, and not really debates. They're rehearsed appearances.

  George H. W. Bush

  Democracy, Too Much, Debate

  Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. April 10, 1999.

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• Boxing is show-business with blood.

  David Belasco

  Blood, Boxing, Shows

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• I love every aspect of show business and that includes both the show part of it and the business part of it.

  Kristy Swanson

  Aspect, Shows

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

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• In 40-odd years in show business, some years I could do no wrong, and some years I could do nothing right. Show business. I owe it everything - it owes me nothing.

  Patsy Kelly

  Years, Stewardship, Odd

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Going to New York to do whatever - show business - it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the big city and meet all kinds of different people and maybe be famous. It was just exciting. So I wasn't scared

  January Jones

  New York, Fun, Cities

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