Show Business Quotes - Page 6

• I'd love to do situation comedy - it's the best job in show business.

  Patti LuPone

  Jobs, Best Job, Comedy

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• I had loved magic tricks from the time I was six or seven. I bought books on magic. I did magic acts for my parents and their friends. I was aiming for show business from early days, and magic was the poor man's way of getting in: you buy a trick for $2, and you've got an act.

  Steve Martin

  Book, Men, Parent

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• In my opinion, life is more important than show business.

  Penny Marshall

  Important, Opinion, Life Is

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

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• To the truly driven (which one has to be to survive in the high stakes, competitive world of show business), lack of opportunity means nothing. The TDs always think numbers are for everyone else and don't involve them.

  K Callan

  Ambition, Mean, Opportunity

  K. Callan (2000). “Directing Your Directing Career”

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• I had been asking the universe and God to send me a way for me to help me. Show business has been so wonderful to me, and it came in the form of that. Its just so funny how things come into your life, and if you take a chance on them, it might give you a brand new life.

  Louie Anderson

  Giving, Asking, Might

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• In my heart and soul, I always knew that I wanted to be in show business.

  Portia Doubleday

  Heart, Soul, Shows

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think 'Y&R's future is contingent upon the ratings. Obviously, none of the soaps are kept alive for the sake of loyalty. It's all about ratings. It's show business. Period.

  Eric Braeden

  Loyalty, Thinking, Alive

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• Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.

  Steve Martin

  Teaching, Form, Shows

  "Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life". Book by Steve Martin, November 20, 2007.

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• People who like to fume about the manner in which Disney changed beloved classics are often ignorant of history, not to mention the realities of show business.

  Kage Baker

  Reality, People, Ignorant

  Kage Baker (2012). “Ancient Rockets: Treasures and Train Wrecks of the Silent Screen”, p.91, Tachyon Publications

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• I have received more fulfillment and adulation than I would ever know what to do with in terms of show business.

  Maria Bamford

  Fulfillment, Term, Adulation

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• All my shows are great. Some of them are bad. But they are all great.

  Michael Grade

  Shows

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• You often hear that people go into show business to find the love they never had when they were children. Never believe it! Every comic and most of the actors I know had a childhood full of love. Then they grew up and found out that in the grown-up world, you don't get all that love, you just get your share. So they went into show business to recapture the love they had known as children when they were the center of the universe.

  Mel Brooks

  Children, Believe, Love You

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• I have a suspicion that the definition of "crazy" in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to f*** [sleep with her] anymore.

  Tina Fey

  Crazy, Sleep, Talking

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.165, Hachette UK

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• And you poor creatures--who conjured you out of the clay? Is God in show business, too?

  John Boorman

  God, Clay, Poor

  "Fictional character: Arthur Frayn". "Zardoz", www.imdb.com. 1974.

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• In show business the saying seems too often true: it isn't enough to succeed; someone else must fail.

  Gene Tierney

  Succeed, Failing, Enough

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• Show business is made up of disappointments, and it's through life's disappointments that you grow.

  Minnie Pearl

  Disappointment, Made, Shows

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• I made the decision to quit show business. Give up the skintight dresses and manicured smiles. The false concern over sentimental lyrics. I would never again work to make people smile inanely and would take on the responsibility of making them think.

  Maya Angelou

  Giving Up, Responsibility, Thinking

  Dr. Maya Angelou (2009). “The Heart of a Woman”, p.55, Random House

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• Just like every kid who comes into show business on some level, I used to put shows on in my basement. I even started with doing tricks and having a ventriloquist dummy.

  Don Scardino

  Kids, Levels, Used

  Source: collider.com

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• One of the things I always believed in was my dad came to America and he was a very talented musician, but he couldn't make a living that way so he had to support his family as an auto mechanic which he also loved doing. He was also such a great dad because when I first told him I thought I wanted to go into show business, his response was okay, that's interesting.

  Denis Leary

  Dad, America, Interesting

  "Denis Leary Wants David Bowie & Steven Tyler In ‘Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll’ Season 2 – Comic Con". Interview with Dominic Patten, deadline.com. July 12, 2015.

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• The highs and lows of show business is a rollercoaster for sure. There's so many highs, there's just moments of your life where you go, "Wow I can't believe how insanely lucky I am," and then you can turn around and the next moment feel so completely caught up in your own wanting, and desiring, and needing and feel like somehow you're missing something. It's just higher the high, the lower the low.

  Jim Carrey

  Believe, Missing, Lucky

  "Steve Carell, Jim Carrey, Olivia Wilde, Steve Buscemi, John Francis Daley, and Jonathan Goldstein Talk THE INCREDIBLE BURT WONDERSTONE". Interview with Adam Chitwood, collider.com. March 11, 2013.

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• A lot of us [comedians] are drawn to the stage or show business or whatever because we didn't feel so great about ourselves, and we didn't know how to do anything about that, so we sought external approval.

  Barry Crimmins

  Comedian, Approval, Stage

  Source: www.npr.org

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• What is so liberating about this whole business is when you see that, you know, big movies are going to come out, huge movies are going to come out, and then you see them up in Malibu in the little Triplex theater a week later, on the scratch negative, and you think...“This is show business. This is the great movie career. And it’s all finding it in the shoebox.”

  Anthony Hopkins

  Thinking, Careers, Shoes

  "Anthony Hopkins Interview THE RITE; Plus Updates on THOR, 360, Composing Music, Painting, and a lot More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarub, collider.com. January 26, 2011.

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• There's nothing that I love to do more than act and I feel really lucky to be in the position that I'm in, being able to do it as my job! If I ever do anything other than act, it will be in show business.

  Sophia Bush

  Jobs, Lucky, Able

  Saturday Night Magazine Interview, z15.invisionfree.com. 2004.

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• I thought success in show business was everything. It isn't. I don't know what is.

  Martha Raye

  Success, Shows, Knows

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• Where I came from, the idea of going into show business was just ridiculous; in fact I didn't tell anybody because I knew people would laugh at me. So I sort of snuck around and got some pictures and got a resume together and, of course, lied and said I did all kinds of things I didn't do.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Ideas, Laughing, People

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