Entertainment Industry Quotes - Page 4

• I have been skeptical and not trusting of traditional models of the entertainment industry. I never got a manager.

  Tim Heidecker

  Entertainment, Not Trusting, Skeptical

  "Tim Heidecker on youth, Louis C.K. and why 'The Comedy' is 'grotesque'". Interview with Steven Zeitchik, articles.latimes.com. November 15, 2012.

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• When I first got into the entertainment industry, I would always watch Rihanna and all those people, so I was like, 'Ooh, I have to be this.' So my mom was like, 'Just be yourself.'

  Willow Smith

  Mom, Being Yourself, People

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

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• By moving to London I removed myself from the madness of the entertainment industry. I love the city and the culture, and it was an opportunity to bring my children up in a more sane environment.

  Gillian Anderson

  Children, Moving, Opportunity

  "Mulder and Scully Reopen the X-Files". Interview with Will Lawrence and John Hiscock, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 25, 2008.

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• With all due respect, many in the entertainment industry are deep into mind-altering substance abuse, and when one's logic and intellectual calculating powers are replaced with dopey feel-good, fantasy-driven denial, the democratic party serves them well.

  Ted Nugent

  Party, Feel Good, Abuse

  "Captain McShitpants blasts Matt Damon on Palin". The Christian Science Monitor, September 18, 2008.

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• I want to make films and write films, which will happen, I'm just taking a different route right now. I'm a bit of a chameleon with the whole entertainment industry so to speak.

  David Boreanaz

  Writing, Want, Entertainment

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• Twenty-eight years ago, I created my first game on an Apple II in my bedroom closet at a time when the interactive entertainment industry was taking its first baby steps. Today the games business has grown to a multi-billion dollar industry and we are just at the tip of the iceberg. I'm thrilled to have been a part of this successful journey and I'm extremely honored by the Academy's Hall of Fame induction.

  Richard Garriott

  Baby, Successful, Journey

  "Richard Garriott Joins Gaming Hall of Fame". uk.ign.com. November 08, 2005.

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• Andy Wiliams' smooth voice and casual style turned the songs he sang into timeless classics and made him one of America's top pop singers. ... The entertainment industry has lost a giant piece of its living history today, but Williams' legacy will forever be enshrined in the annals of music and television.

  Neil Portnow

  Song, Voice, America

  "Crooner Andy Williams Dies at 84" by Mike Barnes, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 26, 2012.

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• In fine arts, when you make a painting, it's just a painting. But if you make a painting in the entertainment industry, it can be an album cover or a t-shirt or a logo. I like that entertainment has this usefulness - that it's ultimately trying to make a bunch of people feel something, and to think about life and be able to use things that were so simple and direct but potentially have a really powerful effect.

  Andrew W.K.

  Art, Powerful, Simple

  Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. September 5, 2012.

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• No one in my family had ever done anything acting-wise or entertainment industry-wise.

  Margot Robbie

  Wise, Acting, Done

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• I wanted to be a musician, either a guitarist or a drummer. I guess my dreams were in the entertainment industry, and I landed somewhere along there.

  Israel Broussard

  Dream, Musician, Entertainment

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

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• None of my friends are in the entertainment industry.

  Lizzy Caplan

  Entertainment, My Friends, Industry

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

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• I'm a bit of a chameleon with the whole entertainment industry so to speak.

  David Boreanaz

  Entertainment, Speak, Chameleon

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• I've done a variety of projects in different areas of the entertainment industry.

  Jodi Benson

  Done, Entertainment, Different

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

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• The compulsion to do the opposite of what you are told does not lend itself to many occupations outside the entertainment industry. Within the industry, it is unlikely that you will be very successful without it.

  Greg Fitzsimmons

  Successful, Opposites, Doe

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• What the entertainment industry can do is tempt you into making stupid mistakes, but the only tool that they have to tempt you is money. So if youre okay saying no to money, then you can say no to a lot of things that you might be embarrassed of later.

  Paul Schneider

  Mistake, Stupid, Tools

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. September 30, 2009.

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• I just don't feel like - I've never felt like - part of the entertainment industry. I still just feel like I'm trying to work my way in. And that's weird.

  Kurt Fuller

  Trying, Entertainment, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The entertainment industry, the advertising industry have taken [the] tools from the art world and made themselves much more politically potent. We are really devastated and very impotent right now. A photographer just working for an advertising company has a platform to be much more politically effective in the world than an artist.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, Taken, Tools

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• If I looked at every other girl in the entertainment industry as competition, my life would be really lonely. I wouldn't have some of the coolest friends that I'm so glad I've gotten to know.

  Taylor Swift

  Girl, Lonely, Competition

  "Country singer Taylor Swift takes 'Fearless' approach to stardom". Interview with Nekesa Mumbi Moody, www.metro.us. May 28, 2009.

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• In our modern society the image and mythic process has been taken over by corporations that directly control advertising and, indirectly, the entertainment industry. Powerful erotic images are used for the sole purpose of selling consumer products; the side effects of this commercialization have a profound impact on the sexual imagination and identity of vast numbers of people.

  Robert Lawlor

  Powerful, Taken, Numbers

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• Waiting for opportunities in the entertainment industry is an impossibility; they are not coming. You have to make your own.

  Thomas Lennon

  Opportunity, Waiting, Entertainment

  Source: collider.com

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• It's common knowledge that in the entertainment industry there's a lot of craziness that goes down, and it's really hard for anyone to stay sane. It's not a very natural environment to be in for too long. It's not very healthy.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Long, Healthy, Down And

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• A career like mine as an actor has a lot of ups and downs. Sometimes you wonder if you're not wasting your time trying to carve out a space for yourself in this crazy entertainment industry.

  Chris Carmack

  Crazy, Space, Careers

  "Nashville's Chris Carmack on The O.C. and the rules of the death row meal". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. September 22, 2015.

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• I have never felt the pain of not being white the way I've felt it since I've been a public figure/part of this entertainment industry.

  Azealia Banks

  Pain, White, Way

  Source: www.refinery29.com

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• I always wanted to be someone in the entertainment industry. In my eighth grade slideshow, when everyone was like "show us what you want to be," everyone [said] doctor, lawyer, [but] mine literally said rapper. I wanted to be a musician, I wanted to be a superstar, I wanted to be on stage, I wanted to perform, I wanted to be in movies. But as you grow up, those dreams kind of fade away.

  Lilly Singh

  Dream, Growing Up, Rapper

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Crack offered a lot of money to the inner-city youth who didn't go to college. Which enabled them to become businessmen. I know about maybe five people in the entertainment industry who did their peak work as a result of crack usage.

  Questlove

  College, Cities, People

  Source: www.believermag.com

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