Show business is just like high school, except you get paid. — Martin Mull
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
There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting. — David Letterman
Politics is show business for ugly people. — Paul Begala
The entertainment is in the presentation. — John McTiernan
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. — Frank Zappa
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
I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other. — Dennis Farina
In this business, it is about making an impact. — Randy Orton
The business is all about gush and hype. You never have a bad meeting in L.A. — Emily Blunt
Both film and fashion are businesses where the audience doesn't feel or see the work that goes on behind the scenes. — Tom Ford
The movie business has always been like the wild-catting oil business. Everyone wants a gusher. — Michael Eisner
I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. — Sydney Pollack
Short Show Business Quotes
It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession. — Katharine Hepburn
Movies will make you famous; Television will make you rich; But theatre will make you good. — Terrence Mann
Well, the world of entertainment and leisure is gigantic. — Jensen Huang
Because, also the world of showbiz is not just black and white, good and bad. — Klaus Schulze
It's not all about acting. It's about giving an art of entertainment to humanity. — Sean Berdy
Business is a combination of war and sport. — Andre Maurois
The only thing that matters is the theater! — Lily Rabe
Top 10 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
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 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
Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs. — Carroll O'Connor
We showed that when we say 'Wisconsin is open for business', we mean it. — Scott Walker
My father was adamant in his disapproval of my interest in show business. — Paul Lynde
The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life. — Desmond Tutu
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
There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up. — Billie Holiday
Show Business Image Quotes
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.
Politics Is Like Show Business Quotes
Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close. — Ronald Reagan
They say that politics is show business for ugly people, but as I always crack, what would I know about that? I like a challenge — George Galloway
There is no business like show business, Irving Berlin once proclaimed, and thirty years ago he may have been right, but not anymore. Nowadays almost every business is like show business, including politics, which has become more like show business than show business is. — Russell Baker
If politics is like show business, then the idea is not to pursue excellence, clarity or honesty but to appear as if you are, which is another matter altogether. — Neil Postman
What I Do Is My Business Quotes
My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier. — Anthony Hopkins
I'm turning left. Look, everyone, my blinker is on, and I'm turning left. I am so happy to be alive, driving along, making a left turn. I'm serious. I am doing exactly what I want to be doing at this moment: existing on a Tuesday, going about my business, on my way somewhere, turning left. — Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, 'What you are doing is none of my business' and 'What I am doing is none of your business.' — George Will
To think that I know what's best for anyone else is to be out of my business. Even in the name of love, it is pure arrogance, and the result is tension, anxiety, and fear. Do I know what's right for me? That is my only business. Let me work with that before I try to solve problems for you. — Byron Katie
My love life is nobody's business... if I give it to 40 million people to read, what do I have left when I go home? I'm protective of my personal life that way. — Julianna Margulies
I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim ""Do not get others to do what you can do yourself."" My motto on the other hand is; ""Do not do that which others can do as well. — Booker T. Washington
I never really have to sit at a desk thinking, "What should I do now?" It doesn't work like that for me, and it never has. My thinking process is constant. The difference is that once I was in Antwerp only doing two men's shows a year. And the weird thing is I thought I was busy then. — Raf Simons
I do most of my business on that dirty Internet that you were just talking about, where I find there is a lot of freedom to report exactly what I want. — Matt Drudge
I don't think the Hollywood community is interested in what I can do. That's all right. I've never looked for a job in my life, and I'm not going to start now. I have plenty to keep me busy. — Mercedes McCambridge
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
The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done. — Jean Piaget
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. — John Wooden
Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way. — Martin Luther King
Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage. — Winston Churchill
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
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
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
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
Lost in a crowd of greats, not a single Oscar. That's showbiz. — Maureen O'Hara
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
What am I doing in this silly showbiz life? I do wonder that sometimes. — Saffron Burrows
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
Movie Industry Quotes
If you look at history, and if you look at all these different things that have threatened the movie industry - from Betamax tape to DVDs to the Internet - in the end, it has always turned out right, because ultimately people want to see that stuff. — Kim Dotcom
Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in India, be it Tamil or Bengali. Those experiences too are different from the ones in Bombay. — Aishwarya Rai
Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in India, be it Tamil or Bengali. Those experiences too are different from the ones in Bombay. — Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
I'm mad, true. But only about one thing. Horror movies. I love spooks. They are a friendly fearsome lot. Very nice people, actually, if you get to know them. Not like these industry chaps out here — Kishore Kumar
We not only romanticize the future; we have also made it into a growth industry, a parlor game and a disaster movie all at the same time. — Eugene Kennedy
I think the central metaphor of the movie is this notion of what the advertising industry does. In order to make someone want to buy something, they first have to make them feel bad about who they are in order to sell them that thing which will make them whole again, and happy again. — Jennifer Beals
The movie industry is failing women. And until the industry starts making serious changes, nothing is going to change. — Manohla Dargis
The movie industry is full of crazy people who think that they are god. — Anthony Hopkins
The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no legislation concerning filmmaking. And, there is no legislation on television that would be beneficial to filmmaking. — Andrzej Wajda
Showtime Quotes
I hate Showtime, I can't stand those guys. — Dana White
If you were to ask me, “What the hell does a musician have in common with a restaurant?” I would say a huge amount. It’s showtime every day, it’s a team of people, like, running a circus, which is running a rock-and-roll band. — Mick Fleetwood
As far as the future for the Showtime episodes that have already aired, we are sold into syndication so we'll be appearing primarily on the Fox syndicated networks and then eventually the SCI FI Channel. So, we'll be around for a while. — Richard Dean Anderson
Showtime has given new, young filmmakers - black, white, across the board - an opportunity to make films, as well as actors who want to cross over into directing. — Morris Chestnut
No one can do in the octagon what I can do. That 'Showtime Knee' - I never even practiced that once. — Anthony Pettis
My husband and I went to Bald Head Island for our four-year anniversary. We spent the night in bed with champagne, tequila and Krispy Kreme doughnuts and watched a boxing match on Showtime. — Teri Polo
The first time probably people really were aware of me, I unfortunately had the title of Showtime's Funniest Person in America. And that's a really tough title to travel around with when you're not even known. — Ellen DeGeneres
I really was interested in doing something for a premium channel like Showtime or HBO, just because you get to really let loose. I think they let their storylines go wherever they want, and it's really a special place to work. — Ben Schwartz
But as a result of that, there was, once the show ended, there was this talk for sort of four, five months about what was going to happen, and if we were going to move to Showtime, and if we were going to be bought by ABC or whatever. — Will Arnett
I've asked Comedy Central, and they just say, "I don't know." It took Showtime two years to put my special on DVD. Owning your own content is the single most important thing in the world. — Jay Mohr
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
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'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
Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation. — Jean Baudrillard
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
But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watching are liking the show. They didn't set up their business model to make writers happy. It's just a nice unintended consequence. — Aaron Sorkin
Cold Case Files and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can’t stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can’t fit on a bumper sticker. — Hal Sparks
I was on a show called '12 Miles of Bad Road' with Lily Tomlin - it was an incredible HBO show. We shot 6 episodes, previewed it before the finale of 'The Sopranos;' it was written up as a 'Great New Show on HBO,' and then the whole thing was canned. Gone. Disappeared. That's when I realized anything can happen in this business. — Eliza Coupe
Twitter, Reddit, Tumblr, Instagram, all these companies are businesses first, but, as a close second, they're demographers of unprecedented reach, thoroughness, and importance. Practically as an accident, digital data can now show us how we fight, how we love, how we age, who we are, and how we're changing. All we have to do is look. — Christian Rudder
Having spent too many years in show business, the one thing I see that succeeds is persistence. It's the person who just ain't gonna go home. I decided early on that I wasn't going to go home. This is what I'll be doing until they put me in jail or in a coffin. — David Mamet
At the end of the day, both men and women who become CEOs have showed tenacity and hard work to succeed in their careers. It takes not just skills but also extreme dedication and commitment. And regardless of gender, CEOs are measured by the same criteria - the growth and success of the business. — Susan Wojcicki
I got everything I wanted. When I was young in Kansas City, I knew nothing about Frank Sinatra, Billy Eckstine, Ella Fitzgerald, of all those concert halls, of all those countries. I did not know what it was like to direct a band... 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
Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice. The result is that we are a people on the verge of amusing ourselves to death. — Neil Postman
Live a vital life. If you live well, you will earn well. If you live well, it will show in your face; it will show in the texture of your voice. There will be something unique and magical about you if you live well. It will infuse not only your personal life but also your business life. And it will give you a vitality nothing else can give. — Jim Rohn
Show me a person who never made a mistake, and I will show you a person who never did anything. — William Rosenberg
How anybody expects a man to stay in business with every two-bit wowser in the country claiming a veto over what we can say and can't say and what we can show and what we can't show - it's enough to make you throw up. The whole principle is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak. — Robert A. Heinlein
I'll never forget that show season. It was completely mad. I was staying between Christy and Naomi's rooms and it was all limos and the Ritz Hotel and all that kind of business. — Kate Moss
Forget about 40 years in show business. Just surviving 27 years of Nicole Richie is enough. — Lionel Richie
All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance. — Bill Murray
If Lady Gaga didn't put on all those outfits, she probably wouldn't have made it in show business. She put a show behind her voice. — Andrew Dice Clay
There is indeed a business like show business. It's the news. — Paul Krassner
Let us show the world that a difference of opinion upon medical subjects is not incompatible with medical friendships; and in so doing, let us throw the whole odium of the hostility of physicians to each other upon their competition for business and money. — Benjamin Rush
When the first movie to show the anger people have about the war is a grade Z zombie movie, that tells you all you need to know about how afraid of ruffling anyone's feathers people in the movie business are today. — Joe Dante
Leaders who want to show sensitivity should listen often and long and talk short and seldom. Many so-called leaders are too busy to listen. True leaders know that time spent listening is well invested. — J. Oswald Sanders
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
I love show business. I wake up every morning and kiss it. — Richard Pryor
I fell in love with Bruce Lee after I watched his movies, and I wanted to become a kung-fu practicer, and I would like to be someone like Bruce Lee. That's why I learned kung-fu, and that's why I picked the wing chun style, because it's his style. That's why I decided to be an actor, to go into show business, because of him. — Stephen Chow
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