Show Business Quotes - Page 15

• Los Angeles is such a town of show business, and I'm a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult - it's the beast that must be fed. There's this big wheel of pictures and articles that goes around, and you get pinned on it.

  Julia Roberts

  Towns, Wheels, Los Angeles

  "How Julia Roberts went from Pretty Woman to the world's most beautiful - a look back on her defining style moments" by Amber Graafland, www.mirror.co.uk. April 21, 2017.

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• We need a president who realizes that there's no government business in show business.

  Penn Jillette

  Government, President, Needs

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

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• I think one of the things about Donald Trump that's interesting is he lives in a rarified atmosphere where it's possible that he doesn't get enough feedback, enough people rolling their eyes at him. It's a danger more in show business than it is with wealth.

  Penn Jillette

  Eye, Thinking, Interesting

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

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• I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.

  James Earl Jones

  Father, Real, Boxing

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• A lot of people say I'd miss show business if I quit. I'd miss some of it. Now it's the only life I know.

  Loretta Lynn

  People, Missing, Quitting

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• Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person.

  Meryl Streep

  Undisciplined, Because I Can, Shows

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• I don't like to hear anybody in show business complain, because I just find it to be such a grateful business. Because there are so many wonderful, creative souls out there and there are so few jobs. And, so, I just find myself thinking to myself "wow, if I could get into a show of any kind and have it last for a while" - that's when I find myself really happy.

  Lorna Luft

  Jobs, Grateful, Thinking

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• To have nice interactions with people is a better than to make anyone uncomfortable, than to try to fill up some kind of lull. Like anybody else, there's times when maybe I don't feel like talking with other people. You don't have to be in show business to not feel like making small talk sometimes. But we kind of are all in this together. It makes things easier - it just makes life easier, if we're all nice to each other. I'm sure that sounds terribly corny, but honestly, it's one of those simple things that it's so simple, it's true, and it's so true that it's simple.

  Paul F. Tompkins

  Nice, Simple, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Totie Fields is one of my benchmarks for a lot of things. There was a standard of show business.

  Bill Murray

  Fields, Standards, Shows

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I did win [on a contest]. And that started me on a new path, and into show business.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Winning, Path, Shows

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• My father kind of encouraged me through that. Exactly,[work] not as an actor, obviously, but as someone in show business that had some success. He told me to live the impossible. "Live the impossible!"

  David Copperfield

  Father, Actors, Impossible

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm not a big believer in slavishly following research. It's one of the things that's wrong with television is that if you throw the whole - the decision-making process to the research department, you're not making any instinctive, visceral judgments about programs, which are show business.

  Grant Tinker

  Decision, Research, Television

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I'm in show business. I believe in illusion and delusions and in holding aloft the bubble of a dream of some sort because, really, there are lots of reasons to look at the chasm. But art and music, these ineffables, they're just - they're the consolations of what human beings can create and make, and delight is accessible, you know, should you care to find it.

  Meryl Streep

  Dream, Art, Believe

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Never really intended to be a comedian, just sort of fell into that, but always wanted to be in show business, or something to do with making comedy.

  Doug Benson

  Comedian, Comedy, Shows

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's so much, I guess I want to say, nonsense about show business now. Because of reality television. I don't get this, because I was never raised to get this, but I don't understand wanting to be famous. Maybe it's because I was born famous, but I don't get it.

  Lorna Luft

  Reality, Television, Want

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• The Broadway community is unlike any community in show business and it is unlike any community in the world. When you come into the Broadway community they open the door and they say "welcome". Not only do they do that, but when times are really tough and horrendous things have happened and really tragic things - the Broadway community shows up! And they say "how can we help?".

  Lorna Luft

  Doors, Community, World

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• When you're in show business no matter what you're doing it's an insecure business.

  Lorna Luft

  Insecure, Matter, Shows

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I think that you have to prepare yourself mentally for show business, because it is such a tough world. You don't realize how hard it is until you're actually in it and you're actually on the show.

  Carmen Rasmusen

  Thinking, World, Tough

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• In show business, it takes 10 years to create an overnight success. You've heard that, right? But what you don't hear is that that's the exact same amount of time it takes to create a bitter failure.

  Marc Maron

  Funny, Humor, Years

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• A friend of mine once asked how to make it in show business and I said "Be so good that they can't ignore you." She thought I was being flip but it's true. The challenge is trying to live up to the opportunities given me.

  Steve Martin

  Opportunity, Challenges, Trying

  "COVER STORY : A Side Order of Steve Martin : He's had his ups and downs with L.A., but they're back together in his new movie". Interview with Elaine Dutka, articles.latimes.com. February 3, 1991.

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• I did a lot of things when I first started out. In order to be in show business, I juggled, I did magic tricks, cards tricks and I played the banjo.

  Steve Martin

  Order, Magic, Cards

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Show business has never been my everything. It's a means; it's not the end. It's a means to the end. I want and have always wanted freedom. That was always my goal, to not have a boss, to not have anybody tell me what to do. Luckily, as an actor, I got that.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Mean, Goal, Boss

  "Police Academy Week: a chat with actor/memoirist Steve Guttenberg". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2012.

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• In show business, you can't make a living. You can only make a fortune, but you can't make a living.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Fortune, Shows

  "Police Academy Week: a chat with actor/memoirist Steve Guttenberg". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2012.

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• I'd moved to L.A. with my mother when I was 17 or 18. She loved show business and I was young enough that I had no idea what I wanted to do.

  Sherilyn Fenn

  Mother, Ideas, Enough

  "Sherilyn Fenn talks David Lynch and how Twin Peaks should have ended". Interview with AVC, tv.avclub.com. January 22, 2014.

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• I am not a member of the chamber of commerce for show business, believe me, but there are some really good people in the business, and [Tom] Hanks has this everyman decency onscreen, but he actually is that guy.

  Kurt Fuller

  Believe, People, Guy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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