Show Business Quotes - Page 3

• The only thing harder than leaving show business is coming back.

  Dave Chappelle

  Leaving, Coming Back, Shows

  "Heaven Hell Dave Chappelle" by Kevin Powell, www.esquire.com. April 30, 2006.

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• It's one of the old show business axioms. No matter how successful you've been, there's always a younger and sexier seal coming along.

  George Burns

  Success, Matter, Shows

  George Burns (1988). “Gracie/Caeser Spec Ed”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• It's easier to get on show business, the hard part is to maintain. Nobody stays famous forever.

  Chris Rock

  Forever, Easier, Shows

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• To be successful in show business, all you need are 50 good breaks.

  Walter Matthau

  Successful, Needs, Break

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

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• I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.

  Michael Jackson

  Love, Business, Wish

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• As far as show business, it's the gratification of doing something that pleases the fans.

  Bobby Sherman

  Fans, Shows, Please

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• Is it hard to make a living in show business? Yeah.

  Marc Maron

  Yeah, Shows, Hard

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• I am interested in a lot of things - not just show business and my passion for animals. I try to keep current in what's going on in the world. I do mental exercises. I don't have any trouble memorizing lines because of the crossword puzzles I do every day to keep my mind a little limber. I don't sit and vegetate.

  Betty White

  Passion, Exercise, Animal

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

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• I cannot stand the people who get wonderful starts in show business and who abuse it. Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen, for example, although there are plenty of others, too. They are the most blessed people in the world, and they don't appreciate it.

  Betty White

  Blessed, People, Appreciate

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

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• I began painting well before I started doing comedy. In fact, when I came out of the war in 1946, I enrolled in art school in Dayton, Ohio. I painted for three years, and then show business took hold.

  Jonathan Winters

  Art, War, School

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• I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.

  Ted Turner

  Business, Acting, Economy

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• I went into show business because I love to work with people, and what I enjoy most about acting is rehearsing and getting to know people and their talents, forming relationships. Working in this business, barriers drop and you get into people real quickly

  Scott Bakula

  Real, People, Acting

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• I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier, I think I would have made a lot more musical movies.

  Christopher Walken

  Business, Thinking, Years

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• When people ask me, ‘how do you make it in show business,’ or whatever, what I always tell them — and nobody ever takes note of it ‘cuz it’s not the answer they wanted to hear…but I always say, ‘Be so good they can’t ignore you.’

  Steve Martin

  People, Answers, Cuz

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• When I'm asked how to succeed in show business, I always say I haven't the foggiest

  Ethel Merman

  Business, Fog, Succeed

  Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group

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• I got everything I wanted. When I was young in Kansas City, I knew nothing about Frank Sinatra, Billy Eckstine, Ella Fitzgerald, of all those concert halls, of all those countries. I did not know what it was like to direct a band... 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

  Country, Cities, Kansas City

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• I always wanted to be a zookeeper when I was growing up, and I've wound up a zookeeper! I've been working with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years! I'm the luckiest old broad on two feet because my life is divided absolutely in half - half animals and half show business. You can't ask for better than two things you love the most.

  Betty White

  Zoos, Growing Up, Animal

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

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• I stayed in show business to pay for my animal business.

  Betty White

  Animal, Pay, Shows

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

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• I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn't have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business.

  Christopher Walken

  Business, Thinking, Doctors

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• I think the fact that I was raised in show business, in New York City, in the '50s, that's affected my personality to the point that I'm a little different.

  Christopher Walken

  New York, Thinking, Cities

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• I think the fact that I grew up in show business had a real effect on my personality. If you were born in New York during the golden age of television, and you grew up on Broadway, that marks you.

  Christopher Walken

  New York, Real, Thinking

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• Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor.

  Christopher Walken

  Jobs, Long, Dancer

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• Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me.

  Ethel Waters

  Mom, Regret, Business

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• I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, 'I wish more people saw that' - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business.

  Christopher Walken

  Thinking, People, Work Out

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• There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business.

  Ethel Waters

  Business, Undertaker, Shows

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