Show Business Quotes - Page 4

• There's nobody in show business that I dislike so I wouldn't want to get in there to hurt anybody.

  Robert Goulet

  Hurt, Feelings, Want

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• Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business.

  Jeff Bridges

  Father, Kids, Actors

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. January 13, 2010.

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• I don't like people who are hypocritical, who pretend to be nice, particularly in show business when they're nice on camera, and then off camera they're absolutely appalling to the makeup people, or the waitress in a restaurant, you know? I don't like - I can't bear those kind of people. So I like people who are, you know, up front in your face.

  Simon Cowell

  Nice, Makeup, People

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. March 17, 2006.

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• I didn't learn fire-eating to conquer my fears. I learned fire-eating because I desperately wanted to be in show business.

  Penn Jillette

  Fire, Conquer, Eating

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

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• There's no job in show business that's harder than any other job outside show business.

  Penn Jillette

  Jobs, Shows, Harder

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

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• Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.

  Don Rickles

  Kids, Controversial, Provocative

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• A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

  Alexander Herzen

  Business, Ambition, Views

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• Never mind the transience of show business and popularity. When we hear Ray Charles, we go, 'That's a great singer.' You don't need a reporter or a writer to tell us. Good is good and it should shine through the years.

  Art Garfunkel

  Years, Shining, Mind

  "Art Garfunkel: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 21, 2011.

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• I learned a long time ago, if you want to keep your friends in show business, don't get famous. Because as soon as you get famous, a lot of the people you used to know, who didn't, become incredibly bitter and jealous. It's part of the territory.

  Denis Leary

  Jealous, Long, People

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• I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit.

  Shirley Bassey

  Age, Retiring, Shows

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• I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.

  Carroll O'Connor

  Business, Real, Flight

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• Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Nice, Cancer, Cutting

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. July 16, 2009.

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• It's a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that's what it takes to be in show business.

  Donny Osmond

  Stuff, Reinventing Yourself, Shows

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• I'm fortunate that I'm employed. And if you're in show business, of course, every night you go to bed and go, oh my god, tomorrow I'll never, ever work again.

  Rick Mercer

  Night, Bed, Tomorrow

  "'Canadian Jon Stewart' Explains Thanksgiving". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. October 9, 2010.

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• Most of the people I know in show business don't need anybody pushing them at all. They're extremely aggressive.

  Helen Reddy

  People, Needs, Pushing

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• Benedict Cumberbatch is not only the best name in show business, it's also the response you get when you ask John Travolta to pronounce Ben Affleck.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Names, Oscars, Shows

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• All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel ... and that's what I've been doing all my life.

  Count Basie

  Bigs, Shows, Wanted

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• I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.

  Wanda Sykes

  Funny Family, Comedy, Shows

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• People have very specific opinions of comedy. Slapstick was an art form in the '20s and the lowest form of show business in the '50s. Who's right, who's wrong? Who's an idiot, who's not?

  Martin Short

  Art, People, Comedy

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• Boxing is show-business with blood.

  David Belasco

  Blood, Boxing, Shows

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• I love every aspect of show business and that includes both the show part of it and the business part of it.

  Kristy Swanson

  Aspect, Shows

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

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• In 40-odd years in show business, some years I could do no wrong, and some years I could do nothing right. Show business. I owe it everything - it owes me nothing.

  Patsy Kelly

  Years, Stewardship, Odd

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Going to New York to do whatever - show business - it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the big city and meet all kinds of different people and maybe be famous. It was just exciting. So I wasn't scared

  January Jones

  New York, Fun, Cities

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• Stand-up don't get no respect - it's the hardest thing to do in show business. You don't have no band and there's no music.

  Tracy Morgan

  Band, No Respect, Hardest

  "A Wild Conversation with Tracy Morgan". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. February 17, 2010.

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• Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.

  Jack Davenport

  Mother, Advice, Breaking Promises

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