Show Business Quotes - Page 9

• Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.

  Steve Martin

  Teaching, Form, Shows

  "Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life". Book by Steve Martin, November 20, 2007.

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• If you can survive 'Saturday Night Live,' then you're good as far as show business is concerned.

  Tracy Morgan

  Night, Saturday, Shows

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• One thing I can take credit for, along with the rest of show business, is when the red ribbons were out, we cured AIDS. Any advancements that came towards fighting AIDS were not done by scientists or doctors - it was people with little ribbons on their lapels.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Fighting, Doctors, People

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• When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe. And I think that's a really dangerous, limiting mindset.

  Ed Helms

  New York, Thinking, Cities

  Interview with Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. June 3, 2009.

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• I pride myself on being down-to-earth. I’m from the Midwest. People who go into show business are screwed up. I romanticized about having a serene life.

  Craig Kilborn

  People, Shows, Screwed Up

  "What ever happened to Craig Kilborn?". Interview with Clark Collis, ew.com. June 25, 2010.

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• I'd love to do situation comedy - it's the best job in show business.

  Patti LuPone

  Jobs, Best Job, Comedy

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• I had been asking the universe and God to send me a way for me to help me. Show business has been so wonderful to me, and it came in the form of that. Its just so funny how things come into your life, and if you take a chance on them, it might give you a brand new life.

  Louie Anderson

  Giving, Asking, Might

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• Magic is the oldest part of the show business profession. It can now be used as a forward-thinking tool to build a child's confidence. It has been an amazing part in many entertainers' lives, including Steve Martin and the late Johnny Carson.

  Criss Angel

  Children, Thinking, Magic

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• I walked out of the show business in 1968 because I thought that would be good for the family. It took me some time to decide but I wanted to spend more time with my wife and two daughters who were always beside me. I wanted to do everything I could for them.

  Pete Best

  Daughter, Two, Wife

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• I was never one to seek out the spotlight. I am kind of a private person, so I don't miss that part of show business at all.

  Angela Cartwright

  Missing, Spotlight, Kind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I graduated from college I thought I was over with show business and was pursuing other things.

  Anna Chlumsky

  College, Shows

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• Show business got really tainted for me.

  Anna Chlumsky

  Shows, Tainted

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• I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.

  Ricky Jay

  Thinking, People, Television

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• To the truly driven (which one has to be to survive in the high stakes, competitive world of show business), lack of opportunity means nothing. The TDs always think numbers are for everyone else and don't involve them.

  K Callan

  Ambition, Mean, Opportunity

  K. Callan (2000). “Directing Your Directing Career”

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• In my opinion, life is more important than show business.

  Penny Marshall

  Important, Opinion, Life Is

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

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• I had loved magic tricks from the time I was six or seven. I bought books on magic. I did magic acts for my parents and their friends. I was aiming for show business from early days, and magic was the poor man's way of getting in: you buy a trick for $2, and you've got an act.

  Steve Martin

  Book, Men, Parent

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• I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I didn't think of it as being tough and things like that.

  Billy Eckstine

  Mean, Thinking, Ideas

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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.

  Andy Gibb

  Parent, Balance, Grew Up

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

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• I was being ridiculed for going to school... But, you see, I had looked hard at the other musicians and the whole show-business scene... They were doing with jazz musicians what they usually reserved for rock n' roll cats: making them overnight successes, then overnight antiques.

  Donald Byrd

  School, Cat, Rocks

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• Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.

  Ethel Merman

  Mom, Business, Views

  Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group

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• Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the car listening to gospel band, The Blind Boys of Alabama. Hearing their lead singer Clarence made me connect the idea of church and show business and see how I could make a career singing music that stirred the soul.

  Daryl Hall

  Boys, Careers, Ideas

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• My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one.

  Marvin Hamlisch

  Writing, Mean, Careers

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• Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.

  Taylor Hackford

  People, Use, Shows

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

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• I felt that I didn't want to be in show business anymore. I felt that I wanted to be a farmer. I was milking cows and shoveling terrible stuff and working all day. By the end of the day, all I wanted was my tap shoes - I thought, 'What am I doing? I better get back where I belong on the stage where we work at night and can sleep late!

  Gregory Hines

  Motivational, Dance, Sleep

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• I have no ego. There is no way you can have a big ego and survive in this [show]business. You can't learn if you think no one else has anything to say that's of value.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Thinking, Ego, Way

  "Jennifer Gets It Right". Interview with Lesley Goober, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 26, 2005.

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