Show Business Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life.

  Victoria Jackson

  Guitar, Perfect, Fantasy

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• If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.

  Sam Waterston

  Strong, Business, Fate

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• There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.

  Sally Field

  People, Style, Television

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• My name was originally John Collins, but I just didn't think it had the flair I needed. I found out the poet laureate of Poland was named Krasinski and so it seemed like a shoe-in for show business.

  John Krasinski

  Thinking, Names, Shoes

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• We have boys now, and men, in the rock and roll business and all the show business, who have this reaction on women. They scream. They yell. They do all sorts of wild things.

  Minnie Pearl

  Pregnancy, Boys, Men

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• To read 'Happy Talk' is to crash a party as vivid and surreal as Felini's 8. It's the business of show business, the American dream, told by a chorus of Americans locked just outside of that dream, outside of the United States, relegated to expatriate status on the shores of Haiti. Melo paints a version of Haiti that's an interior landscape perhaps even more than an externalized place. This Haiti is a plan, a memory, a morphine-drip fueled dream out to bond its inhabitants forever.

  Monica Drake

  Dream, Memories, Party

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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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• Show business pays you a lot of money, because eventually you’re gonna get screwed.

  Jay Leno

  Pay, Shows, Lots Of Money

  "Jay Leno on leaving 'The Tonight Show'". Interview with Steve Kroft, www.cbsnews.com. January 26, 2014.

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• Rejection is a big part of show business. It can be tough on anyone who doesn't have fairly good self-esteem. Especially kids, as they try to discover who they are.

  Angela Cartwright

  Self Esteem, Kids, Rejection

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

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• The circus comes as close to being the world in microcosm as anything I know; in a way, it puts all the rest of show business in the shade.

  E. B. White

  World, Shade, Circus

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.106, Cornell University Press

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• A Negro just can't be whipped by somebody white and return with his head up in the neighborhood, especially in those days, when sports and, to a lesser extent show business, were the only fields open to Negroes, and when the ring was the only place a Negro could whip a white man and not be lynched.

  Malcolm X

  Sports, Men, White Man

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.34, Ballantine Books

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• Don't thank your parents. If you were raised in a nurturing environment, you wouldn't be in show business. Don't say, 'Wow, this is heavy.' Of course it's heavy. It contains the shattered dreams of four other people.

  Conan O'Brien

  Dream, People, Parent

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• The Deer Hunter is securely on my list of American movie events, by which I mean those films that aspired to the whole equation, to be show business and art at the same time.

  Edward Jay Epstein

  Art, Mean, Hollywood

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• I knew early in life that I wanted a show business career.

  Irene Cara

  Careers, Shows, Wanted

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• There's a lot of stuff I want to do, just things that I want to explore that don't involve show business. I'm going to become a television critic. Can you imagine? But I would even consider becoming a baseball scout. Traveling around the heartland looking for the next world-beating phenom.

  Charlie Sheen

  Baseball, Heart, Television

  Source: www.askmen.com

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• I wanted to entertain so badly that I kept at it until I was good. I just browbeat my way into show business.

  Mel Brooks

  Way, Shows, Wanted

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• You often hear that people go into show business to find the love they never had when they were children. Never believe it! Every comic and most of the actors I know had a childhood full of love. Then they grew up and found out that in the grown-up world, you don't get all that love, you just get your share. So they went into show business to recapture the love they had known as children when they were the center of the universe.

  Mel Brooks

  Children, Believe, Love You

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• Show business can be an addiction. ... An audience would laugh at me one night, and I would chase that high for another three months.

  Joan Rivers

  Night, Laughing, Addiction

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• I was absorbing a sorry truth of show business - rejection is the norm and acceptance the oddity. I was learning to cut the tops off my highs and stay with the lows where the rejections and letdowns would be shallow.

  Joan Rivers

  Sorry, Cutting, Acceptance

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• Show business is like riding a bicycle - when you fall off, the best thing to do is get up, brush yourself off and get back on again.

  Gilda Radner

  Fall, Riding, Actors

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• in show business there's not much point in asking yourself if someone really likes you or if he just thinks you can be useful to him, because there's no difference.

  Pauline Kael

  Business, Thinking, Differences

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