Show Business Quotes - Page 17

• If your in business your in show business. The moment you get to work your on stage. Give your performance of your life.

  Robin Sharma

  Giving, Moments, Stage

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from May 01, 2012

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• I guess show business is a lot like baseball: "Wait until next year!" You just never know. Some of the shittiest shows I've ever seen run forever, and some of the best things never get a chance.

  Kurt Fuller

  Baseball, Running, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Show business is a great place to fail upward... and I guess that's what I've done.

  Kurt Fuller

  Done, Failing, Shows

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I am not a member of the chamber of commerce for show business, believe me, but there are some really good people in the business, and [Tom] Hanks has this everyman decency onscreen, but he actually is that guy.

  Kurt Fuller

  Believe, People, Guy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'd moved to L.A. with my mother when I was 17 or 18. She loved show business and I was young enough that I had no idea what I wanted to do.

  Sherilyn Fenn

  Mother, Ideas, Enough

  "Sherilyn Fenn talks David Lynch and how Twin Peaks should have ended". Interview with AVC, tv.avclub.com. January 22, 2014.

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• In show business, you can't make a living. You can only make a fortune, but you can't make a living.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Fortune, Shows

  "Police Academy Week: a chat with actor/memoirist Steve Guttenberg". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2012.

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• Show business has never been my everything. It's a means; it's not the end. It's a means to the end. I want and have always wanted freedom. That was always my goal, to not have a boss, to not have anybody tell me what to do. Luckily, as an actor, I got that.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Mean, Goal, Boss

  "Police Academy Week: a chat with actor/memoirist Steve Guttenberg". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2012.

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• I did a lot of things when I first started out. In order to be in show business, I juggled, I did magic tricks, cards tricks and I played the banjo.

  Steve Martin

  Order, Magic, Cards

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• A friend of mine once asked how to make it in show business and I said "Be so good that they can't ignore you." She thought I was being flip but it's true. The challenge is trying to live up to the opportunities given me.

  Steve Martin

  Opportunity, Challenges, Trying

  "COVER STORY : A Side Order of Steve Martin : He's had his ups and downs with L.A., but they're back together in his new movie". Interview with Elaine Dutka, articles.latimes.com. February 3, 1991.

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• My dad worked every day. I didn't get into show business to work every day. So the fact that most days I get to like, spend really good time with my kids - that's what success is to me.

  Chris Rock

  Dad, Kids, Facts

  "Chris Rock On Standup, Sellouts And Defining Success". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. December 5, 2014.

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• There are people who believe once somebody gets you a job in show business you are set and the truth is you have to fight for every job. People opened the doors for me for sure and hopefully I've helped open the door for some people but when you're there it's on you and you better be ready for it.

  Tom Arnold

  Jobs, Believe, Fighting

  Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.foxnews.com. June 28, 2012.

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• The most important thing in the world for show business, really, you know everything's a high-tech business, but what people want now is what they can't get - exclusivity.

  Mike Tyson

  People, Important, World

  Interview with Earl Sweatshirt, genius.com.

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• I love when I am around a veteran in [show] business. Because I can dig and ask questions, and find out the "who" and "what" of it all.

  Jill Scott

  Veteran, Because I Can, Shows

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• In show business, it takes 10 years to create an overnight success. You've heard that, right? But what you don't hear is that that's the exact same amount of time it takes to create a bitter failure.

  Marc Maron

  Funny, Humor, Years

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• I'm not in show business because I don't have to go to the meetings, I'm just not a part of it, I don't belong to it. When you "belong" to something. You want to think about that word, "belong." People should think about that: it means they own you. If you belong to something it owns you, and I just don't care for that. I like spinning out here like one of those subatomic particles that they can't quite pin down.

  George Carlin

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• You can't be a kid in show business. You will not survive.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Kids, Shows

  "Vanessa Hudgens: Hey Look! She's All Grown Up". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.glamour.com. June 27, 2010.

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• You have to constantly recreate yourself in show business, which is a very fast thing, especially now with the tremendous speed of social media. There are so many personalities, so many different kinds of comedy that you can access, so it’s definitely important to stake your claim and say who you are.

  Margaret Cho

  Media, Personality, Important

  "'I Want to Talk About How We Can Use Our Anger to Heal': Badass Comic Margaret Cho Dishes". Interview with Paula Young Lee, www.alternet.org. September 30, 2015.

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• I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.

  Roy Rogers

  Heart, Introvert, Shows

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• History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.

  James Thurber

  Government, Becoming, Scratches

  James Thurber (1990). “Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself”

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• If you are going to survive in business, show business or any business, then you have to be bold.

  Rebecca Ferguson

  Shows, Ifs

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• I'm always interested in the unexpected and know that things, especially in show business, but in life generally, are inevitably fleeting to one extent.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Fleeting, Unexpected, Shows

  "HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: Jeff Goldblum Talks Law & Order: Criminal Intent’s New Detective and More!". Interview, eclipsemagazine.com. April 29, 2009.

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• I'm not sure what it would mean to have "made it." Made what? Yes, I can make a decent living in show business, so if that's the criteria, then I've made it. But that doesn't feel that important to me. The stuff that matters to me are the new challenges. I know that sounds hokey, but it's true.

  Michael Ian Black

  Mean, Yes I Can, Challenges

  "Michael Ian Black on Parenting, Pop Culture and His Worst Christmas Present Ever". Interview with Sarah Thyre, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 16, 2012.

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• I don't know if the idea of a career in show business or in the arts in general was looked down upon as much as by baby boomers as it was by their parents.

  Jason Sudeikis

  Baby, Art, Careers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've always been pretty levelheaded. In show business you need to have a certain internal stability.

  Annette Bening

  Needs, Certain, Stability

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• In this [show] business you do something rock 'n' roll and then that's it, finished, heads roll. It's best not to take drugs, go to sex dungeons or cause controversy. And those who've done it - Russell Brand, Angus Deayton, whoever - they've really paid for it, even if what they've done is quite trivial.

  Konnie Huq

  Sex, Rocks, Drug

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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