Show Business Quotes - Page 7

• I think one of the most difficult challenges in show business is the challenge of longevity and to constantly realize and reveal what's already been there - like doing stage and singing and dancing in New York. I haven't been that far out of my comfort zone in a while.

  Blair Underwood

  New York, Business, Thinking

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• I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.

  Garry Shandling

  Failure, Emotional, Thinking

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• I called all the major network news bureaus, including Public Radio, and reported ozone AIDS cures coming out of Europe. Not a single reporter or show called back for details. I wrote and sent documentation to all the 'household word' TV talk show hosts who make their living acting 'concerned' and I tried all the 'AIDS fund raising spokespeople', show business celebs, even sending proof of their home addresses, but as of yet not one single phone call or inquiry came back for more.

  Ed McCabe

  Cancer, Home, Europe

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• I have a girlfriend, but I don't really want to talk about her. I won't name her. She isn't in show business, has nothing to do with it. So I'd rather just keep her out of it.

  Luke Perry

  Girlfriend, Names, Want

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

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• I didn't think before that I'd done enough to justify publishing an autobiography but after 40 years in show business I'm now ready to tell my story.

  Cilla Black

  Thinking, Years, Stories

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

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• I just wanted to be in show business. I didn't care if I was going to be an actor or a magician or what. Comedy was a point of the least resistance, really. And on the simplest level, I loved comedy.

  Steve Martin

  Magic, Actors, Levels

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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 love the challenge of show business. It keeps me on my toes.

  Henry Darrow

  Challenges, Toes, Shows

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• No one would have picked me out in high school and said, 'This guy is going to be in show business.' I don't have any of the talents you would normally associate with show business.

  Jerry Springer

  School, Guy, Talent

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• I'm not in show business; I'm in the communications business. That's what it's about for me.

  Richie Havens

  Communication, Shows, Havens

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• If I lose show business - I'll really be an orphan!

  Red Buttons

  Orphan, Shows, Ifs

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• What I hope the most is to be more successful as a mother than in show business, because to be a mother is the most difficult I will ever have to do.

  Celine Dion

  Mother, Successful, Difficult

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• I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great things one day and the next day, nothing.

  Sally Field

  Class, Next Day, One Day

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• I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.

  Carol Burnett

  Wise, Writing, Thinking

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

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• I was always in show business but in many ways was not really of show business. I didn't move in show business circles, particularly, still don't do it.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Moving, Circles, Way

  "Dick Van Dyke Discusses His Career in Entertainment". "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. September 22, 2000.

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• The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.

  Frank Miller

  Writing, Journalism, Shows

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• One of the basic troubles with radio and television news is that both instruments have grown up as an incompatible combination of show business, advertising and news. Each of the three is a rather bizarre and demanding profession. And when you get all three under one roof, the dust never settles.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Dust, Never Settle, Television

  Radio-Television News Directors Association Convention Address, delivered 15 October 1958, Chicago, Illinois

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• I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents. I've always known what is and isn't reality. Even my older brothers' early success 10 years ago didn't change me since there was such an age difference.

  Andy Gibb

  Change, Brother, Moving

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

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