Show Business Quotes - Page 10

• My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one.

  Marvin Hamlisch

  Writing, Mean, Careers

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• Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.

  Taylor Hackford

  People, Use, Shows

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

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• Bob Hope was an entertainment colossus, shrewd and influential well beyond show business. Richard Zoglin's biography captures it all--the public and private Hope.

  Tom Brokaw

  Bob, Biographies, Entertainment

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• When I was 15 years old I felt totally confident I would become a world champion and the greatest bodybuilder in the world. The same was true of show business - I knew that one day I would make more money than anyone else in the industry and I did. For that you need the willingness to work and do everything it takes to make the vision turn into reality.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Reality, Years, Champion

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'm in show business. I'm not like a poor factory worker who'd been laid off.

  Woody Allen

  Poor, Factory Workers, Factories

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• I fell in love with Bruce Lee after I watched his movies, and I wanted to become a kung-fu practicer, and I would like to be someone like Bruce Lee. That's why I learned kung-fu, and that's why I picked the wing chun style, because it's his style. That's why I decided to be an actor, to go into show business, because of him.

  Stephen Chow

  Wings, Style, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• [Show] business is tough. You never know who or what's real. It's tough when you get in this business, if you have no grounded foundation other than Hollywood, because this business isn't real. We're getting paid to do what we love, but it isn't real.

  Columbus Short

  Real, Foundation, Hollywood

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• I'll be like Irving Berlin: "There's no business like show business."

  Debbie Reynolds

  Berlin, Shows

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• I'll just stay in [show business] till they stuff me like Trigger, when I drop dead.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Stuff, Triggers, Shows

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• I come from a show-business family, so wanting to become an actor never crossed my mind. It was just a part of my life.

  Christopher Walken

  Mind, Actors, Shows

  Source: www.donshewey.com

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• I think probably the most difficult challenge was just the climb and rise in show business because I went through my entire twenties with some success as a comedy writer but not much as a performer. And you have to be kind of informed and naive at the same time.

  Steve Martin

  Thinking, Challenges, Twenties

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• I knew I wanted to be in show business so I took the path of least resistance. I loved comedy. But you never know you are funny until people laugh. It's just what I was interested in. I could make people laugh, I guess, but doing it at school and doing it onstage are very different things.

  Steve Martin

  School, People, Laughing

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• Everyone in show business has had the experience of the fan who is so excited at recognizing their favorite star, they say, 'Oh my gosh, you're my biggest fan!

  Audrey Meadows

  Stars, Fans, Excited

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• In show business, never underestimate the power of saying "no".

  Doc Brown

  Saying No, Underestimate, Shows

  Source: thelatest.co.uk

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• All kids love to get dirty, but if I wandered into the garage, my father would say: 'Son, you're not going to have filthy hands like mine. You're going into show business.'

  Bruce Forsyth

  Father, Dirty, Kids

  "Bruce Forsyth: My family values" by Angela Wintle, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.

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• There's no one I trust in show business more than Sabrina Wind. She's my eyes and ears when I can't be there. She weighs in on everything, from scripts to sets to advertising.

  Marc Cherry

  Eye, Wind, Ears

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• As a kid, I really did want to hang out with the grownups, so it was hanging out with the hippest grownups in the world. This was the nicest bunch of people I've worked with in show business, with the exception of the people around 'A Mighty Wind.' It really was a wonderful eight years.

  Harry Shearer

  Kids, Eight, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I consider myself one of the luckiest people in the history of show business.

  Dick Wolf

  People, Shows

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business - I want to see someone so hungry that they eat somebody else's foot.

  Albert Brooks

  Feet, Would Be, Survivor

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• I know it's going to sound cheesy, but I love show business. I love doing comedy, I love that I get to do all this with my friends.

  Nick Kroll

  Cheesy, Sound, Comedy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Ronald Reagan came from show business. His idea of how the government should help the homeless was like your agent. "We'll try to get you work. But don't bug us about it."

  Bill Maher

  Funny, Government, Ideas

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• There's a beauty of show business. It's the only business you can have a career in when you're dead.

  Tom Waits

  Careers, Shows

  Source: tomwaitsfan.com

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• I've always got the road. Stand-up makes you so autonomous and self-sufficient that it really helps with that part of show business.

  Louis C. K.

  Self, Helping, Shows

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• For the most part, comedy is the only fair part of show business.

  Chris Rock

  Comedy, Shows, Fairs

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• So there's a cloud of rage around me, but being an artist kind of changes that. No matter what you thought coming in, what ignorant thing you believed, you're in show business for two years, you're like, "OK, I was wrong." It's hard to be mad at any particular group of people when you're an artist.

  Chris Rock

  Artist, Clouds, Years

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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