Show Business Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• I think that you have to prepare yourself mentally for show business, because it is such a tough world. You don't realize how hard it is until you're actually in it and you're actually on the show.

  Carmen Rasmusen

  Thinking, World, Tough

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Totie Fields is one of my benchmarks for a lot of things. There was a standard of show business.

  Bill Murray

  Fields, Standards, Shows

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I did win [on a contest]. And that started me on a new path, and into show business.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Winning, Path, Shows

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• My father kind of encouraged me through that. Exactly,[work] not as an actor, obviously, but as someone in show business that had some success. He told me to live the impossible. "Live the impossible!"

  David Copperfield

  Father, Actors, Impossible

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm not a big believer in slavishly following research. It's one of the things that's wrong with television is that if you throw the whole - the decision-making process to the research department, you're not making any instinctive, visceral judgments about programs, which are show business.

  Grant Tinker

  Decision, Research, Television

  Source: www.npr.org

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• When I was in college, I was debating to try my hand at show business, or to become a professor. I just thought of the risk of not going into show business and always wondering if I would've had a chance. Because that's where my real heart was.

  Steve Martin

  Real, Heart, College

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• It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.

  Josh Radnor

  Kind, Jerk, Achieve

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

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• I tried to look presentable for a show, but not for sexual attraction. It was strictly for show business.

  Little Richard

  Hypnosis, Looks, Shows

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• On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married

  Scott Bakula

  Married, Shows, Whole

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• The pressure of show business is on all the time and show business is a fickle business. Whatever is popular now - that's all that counts. I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I'm doing and why.

  Nina Simone

  Fickle, Pressure, Conviction

  Source: www.musicismysanctuary.com

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• I was disillusioned by Hollywood at the time, but now I've come to accept that's just the way things are: it's called show business, not show art.

  Jean Seberg

  Art, Shows

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In the beginning, I found myself dealing with a show business dictated by male white supremacists and chauvinists. As a black female, I had to learn how to tap dance around the situation. I had to ... find a way to present my point of view without being pushy or aggressive. In the old days, the only women I saw in this business were in makeup, hairdressing, and wardrobe departments. Now I'm surrounded by women executives, writers, directors, producers, and even women stagehands.

  Diahann Carroll

  Makeup, Views, White

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Forget about 40 years in show business. Just surviving 27 years of Nicole Richie is enough.

  Lionel Richie

  Years, Forget, Enough

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• I always smoked cigars. I've smoked cigars with everybody in show business.

  Al Hirt

  Cuban Cigars, Cigar, Shows

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• My mother always wanted to be in show business, but her parents discouraged her. So when I started performing for the mirror she enrolled me in dancing, singing and piano lessons.

  Irene Cara

  Mother, Mirrors, Piano

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• My theory has always been that everyone in show business is there because they were deprived of some attention as a child.

  Ray Romano

  Children, Attention, Theory

  Ray Romano (1999). “Everything and a Kite”

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• I love show business. I wake up every morning and kiss it.

  Richard Pryor

  Morning, Kissing, Wake Up

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• No one could ever argue with me about people in show business being kind of nice.

  Desi Arnaz

  Nice, People, Be Kind

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• I was always around people who were in the business from the time I was an absolute baby. I grew up in New York City, and my parents, my sister, and I had a house on Fire Island, and they were part of a set of people that were all close and friendly, most of whom were involved in show business in one regard or another. So it was always familiar to me, and I kind of enjoyed it.

  Fred Melamed

  Baby, New York, Fire

  "Fred Melamed on Casual, the Coens, and making Larry David laugh". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. January 15, 2016.

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• I was lucky. I always had really great friends in my personal life, people always just knew who I was. It wasn't until I was in show business where that sort of changed or shifted at first. I have always had a great support network. I have had a lot of really wonderful, close friends.

  Margaret Cho

  People, Support, Lucky

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• I'm sure some people might be offended by that, but this is my feeling about show business. It's not all about pure talent. There are certain people who command a stage because they look good ,like me.

  Howard Stern

  People, Feelings, Looks

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• I thought, "Wow, it sounds really stoned anyway." It sounded good to me. I found out that there was a lot in there. What all this comes down to is I was just trying to get in touch with myself. And I met some interesting people in New York who weren't in show business. I even got to know my dentist.

  Iggy Pop

  New York, People, Interesting

  "New Again: Iggy Pop". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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