Show Business Quotes - Page 17

• That's what's great about show business. It's escapism. You pay your five bucks to get in and sit there and you're in another world. Forget about the problems in the world. It's wonderful.

  Michael Jackson

  World, Bucks, Pay

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When all of your friends are getting pregnant, you start thinking about it. But for Amy and I, show business is our baby.

  Will Arnett

  Baby, Thinking, Amy

  "Will Arnett: 20(ish) Questions". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. April 1, 2007.

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• There is no business like show business, Irving Berlin once proclaimed, and thirty years ago he may have been right, but not anymore. Nowadays almost every business is like show business, including politics, which has become more like show business than show business is.

  Russell Baker

  Years, May, Berlin

  Russell Baker (1981). “So this is depravity”, Pocket Books

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• Twenty-one years ago, when I first heard Mia Farrow had accused me of child molestation, I found the idea so ludicrous I didn't give it a second thought. We were involved in a terribly acrimonious breakup, with great enmity between us and a custody battle slowly gathering energy. The self-serving transparency of her malevolence seemed so obvious I didn't even hire a lawyer to defend myself. It was my show business attorney who told me she was bringing the accusation to the police and I would need a criminal lawyer.

  Woody Allen

  Breakup, Children, Self

  "Woody Allen Speaks Out". www.nytimes.com. February 7, 2014.

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• I have this mistress: show business. I get a lot of love and adulation from outside, and [my wife] lets me have that, while she does all the real-life stuff that counts — making sure the kids are going to school and all that. I married a saint — well, a saint who curses.

  Ray Romano

  Real, School, Kids

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• Will Ferrell is a dangerous man. If he thinks you're in his way in show business, he will crack your head open. He's the Jeff Gillooly of comedy.

  Tina Fey

  Men, Thinking, Dangerous Man

  "Live From Studio 1A: Tina Fey Q & A". allDAY Interview, www.today.com. April 5, 2007.

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• Show business is like a bumpy bus ride. Sometimes you find yourself temporarily juggled out of your seat and holding onto a strap. But the main idea is to hang in there and not be shoved out the door.

  Cliff Robertson

  Doors, Ideas, Finding Yourself

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

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• L.A. can be pretty insane because there's so much show business here, but I also know a lot of kids who grew up in Manhattan who are some of the most normal, nicest people I know. Casting directors always say Chicago people are just nicer.

  Matt Walsh

  Kids, People, Insane

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. April 13, 2012.

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• I just went to Harvard a little while, because I graduated from Armstrong High School in Washington and then I went up there but I didn't stay that long because I went into show business.

  Billy Eckstine

  School, Long, Littles

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• Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable.

  David Johansen

  Playing Music, World, Music Is

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• I'm oddly not competitive. What I love about show business is there is a home for everyone.

  Jay Mohr

  Home, Shows

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• If your in business your in show business. The moment you get to work your on stage. Give your performance of your life.

  Robin Sharma

  Giving, Moments, Stage

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from May 01, 2012

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• I'm very leery of show business, having been in Los Angeles for the last 10 years. Buzz is a dangerous thing that I've heard applied to a lot of people that I've since not heard of again.

  Greg Kinnear

  Years, People, Lasts

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• True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.

  Kent McCord

  True Friend, Hollywood, Myth

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• Writing has nothing to do with publishing. Nothing. People get totally confused about that. You write because you have to - you write because you can't not write. The rest is show-business. I can't state that too strongly. Just write - worry about the rest of it later, if you worry at all. What matters is what happens to you while you're writing the story, the poem, the play. The rest is show-business.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Confused, Writing, Play

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• I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

  J.K. Simmons

  Aspect, Shows

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

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• Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?

  Tamara Tunie

  Blessed, Careers, Long

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

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• I guess I've never really been aggressive, although almost everybody else in show business fights and gouges and knees to get where they want to be.

  Andy Williams

  Fighting, Want, Knees

  "'National treasure' Andy Williams dies of bladder cancer at age 84", www.foxnews.com. September 26, 2012.

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• I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.

  Jack Wild

  Made, Graves, Mark

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Fundamentally, the most important thing is to get the film made for me and to get as many people to see it as possible. And if I help that, then - I know I help that, let's put it that way. I do know that I help that. It is called show business.

  Denzel Washington

  People, Important, Way

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm not in show business because I don't have to go to the meetings, I'm just not a part of it, I don't belong to it. When you "belong" to something. You want to think about that word, "belong." People should think about that: it means they own you. If you belong to something it owns you, and I just don't care for that. I like spinning out here like one of those subatomic particles that they can't quite pin down.

  George Carlin

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I think being individual in the show business is what gives you life and longevity.

  Boy George

  Thinking, Giving, Individual

  "Boy George Talks Culture Club Reunion, Lady Gaga, Adam Lambert". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 23, 2011.

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• If you are going to survive in business, show business or any business, then you have to be bold.

  Rebecca Ferguson

  Shows, Ifs

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• History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.

  James Thurber

  Government, Becoming, Scratches

  James Thurber (1990). “Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself”

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• I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.

  Roy Rogers

  Heart, Introvert, Shows

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