Showbiz Quotes - Page 2

• When you've been brought up in variety, I think timing is always important in your life. If I'm ever late for anything, whether it's personal or business, I always apologise. 'I'm sorry I'm late,' and all that. And if somebody is late meeting me, I expect them to say 'I'm sorry I'm late.' It's just, shall we say, showbiz etiquette of my day.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Sorry, Thinking, Important

  "Didn't he do well?" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2004.

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• I think everybody involved in a movie thinks about the box office. It's the 'biz' part of showbiz.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Thinking, Office, Boxes

  "Ryan Reynolds and Jeff Bridges Talk R.I.P.D., Childhood Memories, On-Set Injuries, Creating Roy the Cowboy, and More". Interview with Perri Nemiroff, collider.com. July 15, 2013.

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• Despite being in showbiz, I have a very real approach to my life. It plays off with my social life.

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

  Real, Play, Social

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• Diplomats negotiate. That's what I do on my show. So I consider myself a diplomat in showbiz.

  Woody Milintachinda

  Diplomats, Shows

  Source: travel.cnn.com

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• I'm in showbiz. I look at my boobs like they're show horses or show dogs. You've got to keep them groomed.

  Dolly Parton

  Dog, Horse, Looks

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• I can't speak for everybody, but sometimes, people get in this showbiz game and they get the money, but then they forget why they got in the game in the first place. I don't even look at it as fame, I just look at it as me being me, and me going out here everyday and being productive, because I am the product, and I'm selling myself. I'm selling my ambition and my integrity and my adversity, and I'd just like to be that.

  Young Jeezy

  Integrity, Ambition, Adversity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't mind being accused of being a bad comedian and I don't even mind being accused of being a bad talk-show host, but I never want to be accused of being an arrogant, pompous showbiz asshole.

  David Letterman

  Comedian, Mind, Arrogant

  "David Letterman's 1984 Playboy Interview. A Candid Conversation with the Comedy Genius In His Youth". Playboy Interview, playboysfw.kinja.com. April 3, 2014.

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• The truth is, people go to shows because they want a show. They want showbiz. When people talk about a show they saw it's not because they heard a song, it's because they were excited and geared up about the show.

  Arthur Fogel

  Song, People, Want

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• I always hate people that complain about showbiz after they've had a good run. To me there are so many great bands that never get their due, that are struggling away. And I'm like, if you hit the lottery, man, you can't expect it to come around every time.

  Miles Zuniga

  Running, Hate, Struggle

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• Many people in and out of showbiz live their lives in different ways. I try to be the best I can be.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  People, Trying, Way

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• If you think of the public lives of people who've been unlucky, it seems showbiz is some tumultuous crazy world but some are fortunate and some unfortunate. All I can do is keep striving to be better.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Crazy, Thinking, People

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• I hardly ever go to showbiz parties, it's not my style. That doesn't mean to say I don't have a good time. I love hanging out with mates.

  Max Beesley

  Party, Mean, Style

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• When I dropped out [from a law school], everybody was disappointed... But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom. Before that, I never realized how much I sought other people's approval. Once I figured that out, I was free to move on and seek the approval of other people, in comedy clubs and showbiz meetings.

  Demetri Martin

  Moving, School, Law

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The only value of ideology is to stop things becoming showbiz.

  Brian Eno

  Becoming, Ideology, Values

  "A Year With Swollen Appendices". Book by Brian Eno, 1996.

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• Karl Lagerfeld is the hardest-working man in showbiz!

  Theophilus London

  Men, Working Man, Hardest

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• Mass communication communicates massively: its language lacks precise articulation and avoids demanding terms; it argues for the kind of behavior in life which will make a "good program": ethic equals showbiz.

  Frederic Raphael

  Communication, Ethics, Arguing

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• I think, if you've got children, that's your life. Your 'showbiz' life, if you want to call it that, is a separate thing, and it isn't everything to me.

  Rob Brydon

  Children, Thinking, Want

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

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• I think it's particularly fun not being a full-time showbiz reporter because you still have the 'Oh, wow!' factor when you go out on the red carpet and there are these big stars that are standing there. But if you're doing this day in and day out, it becomes a little blase.

  Daryn Kagan

  Stars, Fun, Thinking

  "Oscars and the 'Oh, wow' factor" by Daryn Kagan, www.cnn.com. February 14, 2003.

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• My first real showbiz job was on a Nickelodeon show called 'Hey, Dude.' That was my first real paid scriptwriting job.

  Graham Yost

  Jobs, Real, Hey

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• It looked like Ben Stiller was one of the showbiz meteorites who was moving so fast he would soon have no worlds left to conquer.

  Manohla Dargis

  Moving, World, Conquer

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.

  Alexei Sayle

  People, Want, Memoir

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

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• When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me. I thought, "Half of this is workin'. I'm famous, but now I need to be famous with some money." That got my brain started at trying to figure out the business end. And once I figured out the business side, I next came to understand that success really comes down to the product, not to me, my personality, or what club I'm seen going into or coming out of. None of that matters.

  Ice Cube

  Personality, Brain, Trying

  "Chilling with Ice". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com. 2010.

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• I mean we [The Beatles] had to go through humiliation upon humiliation with the middle classes and showbiz and Lord Mayors and all that. They were so condescending and stupid. Everybody trying to use us. It was a special humiliation for me because I could never keep my mouth shut and I'd always have to be drunk or pilled to counteract this pressure. It was really hell .

  John Lennon

  Stupid, Mean, Class

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• It's probably my favorite part of my whole showbiz experience, is Broadway. The community of Broadway. That feeling that happens every night.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Night, Community, Feelings

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• My daughter's dabbling in showbiz, and she's done a few commercials. She's auditioned for some movies and shows, so I'm letting her pursue that. I'm OK with it.

  Candace Cameron

  Daughter, Mother, Done

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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