Show Business Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• When you grow up in Chicago, your whole family is counting on you to go to college and do something distinguished. The last thing you're thinking is that you're going to make a career in show business.

  Harold Ramis

  Growing Up, College, Thinking

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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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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• When you train as a dancer, you understand you have to work exceptionally hard. I think dancers are the hardest - working people in show business. You have to push your body beyond where you thought it could go. It's athleticism. Perfection doesn't exist, but with classical ballet, there is an ideal, and I got obsessed with that ideal. In some ways, it was problematic because I don't have an ideal ballet body, but the discipline is what I carry with me to this day. That's my park, the discipline of dancing.

  Laverne Cox

  Thinking, Perfection, Discipline

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age

  Scott Bakula

  Retirement, Age, Great Things

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• Get out of show business. Its the best advice I ever got, because Im so stubborn that if someone would tell me that, I would stay in it to the bitter end.

  Walter Matthau

  Advice, Stubborn, Bitter

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• I couldn't do anything. I'd work in a department store for a couple of weeks, but I couldn't hack it. I couldn't even type! I had no skills whatsoever outside of show business.

  Helen Reddy

  Couple, Skills, Week

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• I love performing, but I never really liked show business. My success is my family. I want to be more successful as a mother.

  Celine Dion

  Mother, Successful, Want

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

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• There's this big pie in show business, and you physically can't eat the whole pie. If you give everybody a slice of pie, you will still have more than enough. The real trick is not to try to get the whole pie, but to keep the biggest slice.

  Jay Leno

  Real, Pie, Giving

  "Oprah Talks to Jay Leno". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. February, 2003.

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• And, you know, when you are a kid, everybody wants to be an actor. I think that everybody wants to be in show business, frankly.

  Brent Spiner

  Kids, Thinking, Actors

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• There is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they where working in show business.

  Brent Spiner

  Numbers, People, Wish

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• I thought I was learning about show business. The more painful it was, the more important I thought the experience must be. Hating it, I convinced myself it must be invaluable.

  Judy Holliday

  Hate, Important, Painful

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• There were a lot of signs being thrown at me. A lot of angels I was meeting, inspiring me to get back into show business.

  Anna Chlumsky

  Angel, Shows, Meetings

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• I work in show business - there's nothing that shocks me anymore!

  Thomas Gibson

  Shock, Shows

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My father was adamant in his disapproval of my interest in show business.

  Paul Lynde

  Father, Interest, Adamant

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• I'm a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I've really had to decide what's important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business.

  Diana Ross

  Order, Years, Parent

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• Well I've always said that fame and fortune - the two things that one seems to go after when they go into show business was not at all what it was cracked up to be as far as I was concerned. I found fame to be somewhat of a prison. The more famous you were, the smaller the cell that you had to live in.

  Dave Madden

  Cells, Two, Prison

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• I was born and raised to entertain other people. I've heard laughter and applause and known a lot of sorrow. Everything about me is based on show business - I think it will bring me happiness. I hope so.

  Donald O'Connor

  Laughter, Thinking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act.

  Kenny Baker

  School, Years, Taxi

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I said, to hell with the whole thing, to hell with show business. I'm gonna make a new life for myself, and I got off drugs, completely kicked all that stuff

  Tommy Kirk

  Drug, New Life, Stuff

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