Show Business Quotes - Page 9

• I'm lucky having parents that have been in show business for a while and they don't care about the shiny stuff so much. They raised me in that way - to stay grounded, not to chase the shiny pretty things. I stay in the moment, because when you do that the hype goes away.

  Zoe Kravitz

  Hype, Parent, Stuff

  "Interview: Zoe Kravitz – ‘Yelling To The Sky’ (Opens In NYC Tomorrow, 12/14)". Interview with Tambay A. Obenson, www.indiewire.com. December 13, 2012.

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• The Beatles looked like they were in show business, and that was the important thing. And the important thing for the Rolling Stones was to look as if they were not.

  Andrew Loog Oldham

  Important, Rolling, Looks

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• The Beatles first appeared on our show on February 9, 1964, and I have never seen any scenes to compare with the bedlam that was occasioned by their debut. Broadway was jammed with people for almost eight blocks. They screamed, yelled, and stopped traffic. It was indescribable ... There has never been anything like it in show business, and the New York City police were very happy it didn't - and wouldn't - happen again.

  Ed Sullivan

  New York, Block, Eight

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• Over 55,000 people saw the Beatles at Shea Stadium. We took $304,000 - the greatest gross ever in the history of show business!

  Sid Bernstein

  People, Saws, Stadiums

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• One of the main destructive forces within our family has been these runaway egos. I think if you look at any show business family, that struggle exists.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Struggle, Thinking, Ego

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• Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It's very much a live show: they have comedy writers waiting in the wings, and as you come off between presentations, they hand you an appropriate gag to tell.

  Michael Caine

  Jobs, Hands, Wings

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• In what other business can a guy my age drink martinis, smoke cigars and sing? I think all people who retire ought to go into show business. I've been retired all my life.

  George Burns

  Thinking, People, Guy

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

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• I'm in a whole different part of show business. I'm not even part of Shakespeare in Love.

  Eddie Murphy

  Different, Shows, Whole

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• That's ended, that's over. I want you to meet my pimps. I thought, I'm a show-business ho already, so I might as well be a real ho.

  Bill Maher

  Real, Pimp, Want

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• I began my show business career playing violin in San Francisco at the corner of Market and Taylor. I understand that there is a theater there now.

  Jack Benny

  Careers, San Francisco, Violin

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

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• When I was forty, I was getting divorced, living in a low-class, dirty hotel in New York. My mother was dying of cancer. I owed $20,000. That was about the lowest. I came back to show business, and I couldn't get a job. I was turned down by every small-time agent in New York.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Mother, Jobs, New York

  "Rodney Dangerfield: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• There is indeed a business like show business. It's the news.

  Paul Krassner

  News, Shows

  Paul Krassner, Arianna Huffington (2009). “Who's to say what's obscene?: politics, culture and comedy in America today”, City Lights Publishers

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• My family's been in show business since the 1700s. I traced them. I'm bred to this. Like a racehorse. A thoroughbred. Look at my parents, my God. But it was my curiosity that made me do this. Because you could also say: "Look at Frank Sinatra Jr." It's not like a natural thing that happens. You gotta work.

  Liza Minnelli

  Parent, Curiosity, Looks

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

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• It's important in show business to have friends who understand the cut and thrust of everyday working life and the constant rejection.

  Julian Ovenden

  Cutting, Rejection, Everyday

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• People have very specific opinions of comedy. Slapstick was an art form in the '20s and the lowest form of show business in the '50s. Who's right, who's wrong? Who's an idiot, who's not?

  Martin Short

  Art, People, Comedy

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• Show business is what I do, not what I am.

  Sophia Loren

  Shows

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• The greatest acts in colored show business had long made Harlem their home and favorite stamping ground.

  Ethel Waters

  Home, Long, Harlem

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• The essence of show business is, if you see a tight-rope walker go across a tight rope, everybody claps. But, if you see him wobble, everybody gasps.

  T Bone Burnett

  Essence, Rope, Shows

  Source: collider.com

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• I'd rather be a flop at show business than to be a success at something I didn't like.

  George Burns

  Shows

  George Burns (1991). “The Most of George Burns”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• I must be the only person of my age who doesn't have a bloody gong. They are so common in show business.

  Janet Street-Porter

  Age, Common, Gongs

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• I learned some invaluable lessons in Nashville that apply to both farming and show business: Do not corner something you know is meaner than you; keep skunks of all kinds at a distance; if you forgive your enemies, it messes up their heads.

  Willie Nelson

  Distance, Nashville, Forgiving

  Willie Nelson, Turk Pipkin (2006). “The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart”, p.53, Penguin

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• I try to please people, to give them a good time, but I refuse to make my act conform to traditional show-biz standards of entertainment. There's a little voice that says, 'Oh, no, you can't do that, that's breaking all the rules.' That's the voice of show business. Then this other little voice says, 'Try it.' And most of the time, when the voice comes on and says, 'No,' that's the time it works.

  Andy Kaufman

  Voice, People, Giving

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• I don't like show business. I don't like the business. I love acting. I love this. I love talking to people.

  Jeffrey Tambor

  Talking, People, Acting

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• I think people are used to people in show business having a lot of hubris. I think I have a normal amount of self-loathing but because I'm in show business it's considered self-deprecation. In normal life I would just be considered your average neurotic.

  Jon Stewart

  Thinking, Self, Average

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

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• I have a bad gambling problem. You're not in show business for 12 years and dress like this without a bad gambling problem.

  Artie Lange

  Gambling, Years, Dresses

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