The most important thing in the world for show business, really, you know everything's a high-tech business, but what people want now is what they can't get - exclusivity. — Mike Tyson
Show business is just like high school, except you get paid. — Martin Mull
There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting. — David Letterman
The entertainment is in the presentation. — John McTiernan
There's one way to do showbiz, if you want to do it perfectly, you have to be disciplined and you have to be ready to work really hard. — Celine Dion
The business is all about gush and hype. You never have a bad meeting in L.A. — Emily Blunt
Lost in a crowd of greats, not a single Oscar. That's showbiz. — Maureen O'Hara
What am I doing in this silly showbiz life? I do wonder that sometimes. — Saffron Burrows
Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good! — Florenz Ziegfeld
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. — Frank Zappa
The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics. — Harold Clurman
The movie business has always been like the wild-catting oil business. Everyone wants a gusher. — Michael Eisner
Because, also the world of showbiz is not just black and white, good and bad. — Klaus Schulze
Politics is show business for ugly people. — Paul Begala
Show Business Quotes
Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had. — Alan Watts
Milton Berle is an inspiration to every young person that wants to get into show business. Hard work, perseverance, and discipline: all the things you need...when you have no talent. — Dean Martin
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. — Sayings
Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.
You know, the funny thing about Lorne and that show is that, you can go over one million things, but in a business of bean counters, he still likes to laugh at small things and creates a show around it. — Colin Quinn
I learned some invaluable lessons in Nashville that apply to both farming and show business: Do not corner something you know is meaner than you; keep skunks of all kinds at a distance; if you forgive your enemies, it messes up their heads. — Willie Nelson
I don't mean to sound - I don't want it to come out funny, but I don't like show business. I love - I love acting in films. I love it. — Gene Wilder
I'm just there to do interviews and stuff, because we have about 40 media people there, so it's a very, very busy week. But that's the only time. I did marry, I think on one show, about 25 couples in Acapulco Bay once, but that was all just for kicks. — Gavin MacLeod
I believe that the laws of karma do not apply to show business, where good things happen to bad people on a fairly regular basis. — Chuck Lorre
ELVIS PRESLEY was bigger than life. His success was documented and laid out for him. He came to the first show I had in Memphis, and it was very nice. He sort of treated me like an equal, because we were both fresh in the business. We got to be great friends and kindred souls. — Roy Orbison
At first I missed it, but it was the amazing energy thing that happened during shows, when a lot of people were like Yay Yay Yeah! I missed that for a while. But I don't miss the regular and the business side of that whole thing. — Bill Kreutzmann
Showbiz Quotes
My parents used to throw great New Year's Eve parties. They invited such an eclectic mix of showbiz people. All those cool people were always hanging out at our apartment. — Ben Stiller
Everyone in showbiz is driven by ego, so how do you go from having loads of fame to working at 7-11? You can't do it! — Ryan Seacrest
My parents were involved in everything I did. They were showbiz people themselves. My dad was an actor. They were parents; they did what parents are supposed to do. — Tina Yothers
Also, the more you're not focused on showbiz and instead focused on life, learning about other people, and keeping your eyes open and trying to be aware of the world. — Jason Schwartzman
Comedians and impressionists used to be two different showbiz animals entirely, but now there's no such thing as a comedian who doesn't do impressions. — John Podhoretz
My first real showbiz job was on a Nickelodeon show called 'Hey, Dude.' That was my first real paid scriptwriting job. — Graham Yost
People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare. — Jo Brand
The showbiz world has to be manipulated to make it more interesting because most people's lives are boring. — James Blunt
It's destiny that pushed me towards showbiz. I wanted to start off as a technician, but out of compulsion, I became an actor. — Pawan Kalyan
During my early years, I thought I might be a musician. Like most kids, I didn't do what my parents wanted me to do. They were gung-ho that all their kids become actors. They loved showbiz so much. I am a product of nepotism, basically. — Jeff Bridges
Movie Business Quotes
Leadership is not for the faint of heart — Bill Hybels
I don't blame the people for the fact that so many movies are bad. I think there's a corrupt, perverted, lazy and sloppy attitude that's pervasive in the movie business. The whole entertainment business is kind of crumbling around us. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
My mom and dad - they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn't the end-all. They weren't out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about 'What can we do as a family. — Candace Cameron
The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified. — Jeremy Renner
When you look at movies, the lead girl is always gorgeous and thin. There is a stereotype that you need to look a certain way and when you get in the business you really feel the pressure. — Margot Robbie
The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed. — J. K. Rowling
I have never had anything that I can remember in the business - and that includes all the movies and the stage shows and everything - that I didn't enjoy. I didn't like some of the small-time vaudeville, because we weren't going on and getting better. Aside from that, I didn't dislike anything. — Fred Astaire
I'm gonna make sure everybody get their justice. This the year for business, this the year for my book, this the year for the movie and this the year for getting even. I'm on my way. — Suge Knight
It's very eclectic, the way one chooses subjects in the movie business, especially in the commercial movie business. You need to develop material yourself or material is presented to you as an assignment to direct. — John Frankenheimer
Entertainment Business Quotes
Money is catching up to the technological trends transforming all aspects of society and business; entertainment, insurance, health-care, gaming, leisure, retail - all commercial and social verticals are going digital - including money itself. — Max Keiser
The whole format of entertainment that I did seems to be fading away. The music business of today is completely different when you see the videos and the music. — Bobby Vinton
I want to become an entertainment, tech, and business mogul just in general. — Jake Paul
I studied everyone in the business of entertainment: Dr. Dre, Diddy, everyone. Rob Dyrdek was big for me. He would get 2 million views a week on 'Rob and Big,' and from that sprung everything: DC shoes, Monster Energy, 'Fantasy Factory,' everything. — Jake Paul
In business, one should never take anything for granted. Your fortune can change in five minutes. — Koos Bekker
Building a successful business is no longer about B2B or B2C. It’s about P2P, those people-to-people relationships. – Pat Flynn — Pat Flynn
Currently, e-commerce is the segment of our internet business which is growing the fastest and it will remain that way for the foreseeable future. — Koos Bekker
The cards are stacked in your favor when you reinvest every penny in your business. — Vladimer Botsvadze
I love the restaurant business because it’s all about making people happy and bringing them together over good food. — Glen Bell
Everyday hit every wave, like I’m Hawaiian. I don’t surf the net, no I’ve never been on MySpace, too busy letting my voice vibrate, carving out my space in this world. — Jay-Z
Entertainment Industry Quotes
I want to expand and conquer every platform, every medium as well as pursue entertainment beyond social media - acting, producing, and directing. — Logan Paul
Moving forward, the most successful people in the entertainment industry will be 50 percent social and 50 percent traditional, so working with Disney and being super traditional, it brought a whole different audience to me. — Jake Paul
I want to be the biggest entertainer in the world. That's my deal. I'll do whatever it takes to get that. — Logan Paul
I moved out to L.A. to pursue entertainment beyond social media. Because I could have made Vines from Ohio. — Logan Paul
He [George Orwell] would not blow his nose without moralising on conditions in the handkerchief industry. — Cyril Connolly
Hospitality doesn’t belong just in the hospitality industry—restaurants, hotels, cruise lines, tourism—but in every industry, in every company, in every transaction. — Jeff Lawson
I think the industry brings out probably the best individuals in the sport that can encourage and motivate people to be all they can be. — Martyn Ford
From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us. — David Antin
When an industry leader takes a shot at you in the press, that’s one way to know you’ve arrived. — Cliff Lerner
[The] greatest investment reward comes to those who by good luck or good sense find the occasional company that over the years can grow in sales and profits far more than industry as a whole. — Philip Arthur Fisher
Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire. — Carroll O'Connor
I just wanted to be in show biz. I wanted to make music and sing and dance, tell jokes and stories, make ya smile, make ya cry - and charge you $ 8.50 — David Lee Roth
I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business - I want to see someone so hungry that they eat somebody else's foot. — Albert Brooks
But MTV relishes its vestigial role as a star maker, so every year it puts all its clout into making the VMAs the biggest, splashiest, loudest show-biz extravaganza of the year, honoring all this music for existing, after a year of paying barely any attention to it. — Rob Sheffield
In any other job, they're truck drivers. In show-biz, they're Transportation Captains. — Drew Carey
We're gonna have to sweeten some of these jokes for the CD. You know what sweeten means, right? Sweeten is a show-biz term for "add sugar to". — Mitch Hedberg
If we admit it or not, skiing is a little bit of show biz — Willy Bogner, Jr.
I used to think no one should go into show biz, but now I feel differently. I now feel like it's a great career. If you can do it and make money at it and still not be so famous that you can have a normal life - then I think it's a great career. — Julia Sweeney
We weren't going to play the show-biz game, and be obsequious. — Neil Innes
Peak oil is already upon us. It is destroying our banking system, that is, our system for marshalling capital, and that is about to put us out of business-as-usual. So, we have to carry on with business-not-so-usual. This could mean anything from your children finding careers in farming (rather than show biz or plastic surgery) to reorganizing households differently to traveling from New York to Boston by boat. — James Howard Kunstler
Of course, the toxic bullshit of incessant advertising and show biz for nearly a century has stripped us of cognitive abilities for dealing with reality that used to be part of the normal equipment of adulthood - for instance, knowing the difference between wishing for stuff and making stuff happen. We bamboozled ourselves with too much magic. — James Howard Kunstler
My father when walked into a room, you could tell that everybody loved him. They really did. He was quite a man. My mother was more into the show biz atmosphere than he was. — Don Rickles
I try to impart this when people say they want to be a writer and they want to go into show biz. I say, "Well, have you taken any courses? You can't just have a passion for it; you have to prepare yourself for a life of it." — Larry Wilmore
Occasionally I play the music for my mother when she demands to hear it and she always just says, 'Who is that singing? I don't like the singing.' And then she says 'Who's doing all that bumpety-bump noise?' It's all noise backing up horrible singing as far as she's concerned. She's not a show-biz mother. — Colin Greenwood
When I first got into this biz called show, I decided I was going to change my name, make it more Hollywood. And you know how you do that? You take your middle name and the first street that you ever lived on. So when I first started, I actually went by Sue Rural Route 2. — Bonnie McFarlane
I have one show biz picture in my house. It's with Mr. Hope. I have asked for one autograph in my life: Mr. Hope's. — Henry Cho
You might be a redneck if your sophisticated show-biz cousin is a rodeo clown. — Jeff Foxworthy
I try to please people, to give them a good time, but I refuse to make my act conform to traditional show-biz standards of entertainment. There's a little voice that says, 'Oh, no, you can't do that, that's breaking all the rules.' That's the voice of show business. Then this other little voice says, 'Try it.' And most of the time, when the voice comes on and says, 'No,' that's the time it works. — Andy Kaufman
I got to wear pancake makeup because you know I'm a show biz professional and they all wear pancake makeup. I got to drink free cokes! — Levi Johnston
I grew up in a show biz family and, if you wanted to talk at the dinner table, you'd better be prepared to talk about film. — John Orloff
My parents were both in show business. My father was an actor, my mom an actress, and both singers, dancers and actors. They met in Los Angeles doing a play together and so I grew up in a show biz family. — Micky Dolenz
I always liked show biz and got to make a few training films at Boeing. — Sayings
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