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out there in Hollywood and couldn't find a job
Show business is made up of disappointments, and it's through life's disappointments that you grow.
No matter what the role, you're trying to do the impossible - make a living in show business.
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.
In show business, you can't make a living. You can only make a fortune, but you can't make a living.
Well, we're in show business, and I have been making a living in this business a long time and inevitably it means taking what it is that you've done and hopefully you're showing it to a lot of people who like it.
I'm in love with everything about show business. The only thing that ever came easy to me in life has been acting.
Show business pays you a lot of money because eventually you're gonna get screwed.
Actors wait tables, directors work at video stores.
I started in this business on soap operas.
I'm very leery of show business, having been in Los Angeles for the last 10 years. Buzz is a dangerous thing that I've heard applied to a lot of people that I've since not heard of again.
I'm in this business, man, and I honestly don't know anything about show business at all. I don't know how it works.
If you have to have a job in this world, a high-priced movie star is a pretty good gig.
You can either be a movie star or an actor. I'm an actor.
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.
Journalists have made celebrities into an industry.
Show business is a great place to fail upward ... and I guess that's what I've done.
What makes the most money for this business? Dead rock stars.
I love the challenge of show business. It keeps me on my toes.
You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.
Even though I was in close proximity to everything, it never really dawned on me to pursue a career in show business.
A lot of people find themselves in the entertainment business - or perhaps society steers them toward it - because they're beautiful.
[Show] business is tough. You never know who or what's real. It's tough when you get in this business, if you have no grounded foundation other than Hollywood, because this business isn't real. We're getting paid to do what we love, but it isn't real.
You can't be a kid in show business. You will not survive.
Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offered to you.
There are people who appear in the magazines and I don't know who they are. I've never seen anything they've done and their careers are over already. They're famous for maybe 10 minutes. Real careers, I think, take a long time to unfold.
Entertainment is like any other major industry; it's cold, big business. The business end wants to know one thing: Can you do the job? If you can, you're in, you're made; if you can't, you're out.
Most entertainment careers aren't going to end in fame.
The record business. It's exactly what it is-Record-Busin ess. You have to take care of both, or they won't take care of you.
Everybody told me to stay in Hollywood. This was the place they said I could have a big career. What they failed to mention was that no one would quite know what to do with me.
Oh, my career. What career? I'm over 40.
And, you know, when you are a kid, everybody wants to be an actor. I think that everybody wants to be in show business, frankly.
I'm lucky that a lot of my friends are in the entertainment industry.
If you can find it in you to love how stupid the entertainment industry is, you can have a great career.
Hollywood ... that's not going to be my niche at all. If anyone is going wants to work with me, I would think it's going to be independent films. I'm not 22!
A lot of show business, as you know, is about all the contacts you make and who you know.
When I graduated from college I thought I was over with show business and was pursuing other things.
Celebrity is more than a culture today; it is an industry, complete with fame factories.
[My father did] advertising. That's why I got into this business. I think because we're really boxes of soap - actors and singers. You're artists, but in the public eye it's a matter of advertising.
You've got to know business before you go to show business.
Why would you want to work for a living if you could just joke around? Being a celebrity expands your commercial possibilities.
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.
I thought success in show business was everything. It isn't. I don't know what is.
I was a weirdo to want to be in show business. Most kids wanted to be teachers or nurses.
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!
I want to tell my jokes. I want to have time with my children. I want to entertain people. And at one point, I'll walk away from show business. But I don't want to walk away empty-handed.
I want to be an entertainment lawyer so I'll be in the business still.
It's easier to get on show business, the hard part is to maintain. Nobody stays famous forever.
In the old days the studios guided your career. Now it's all up to you.
To this day, I don't know what shapes a Hollywood career.
When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.
T.V. acting is a great skill to have, and it's nice to have that stability.
My father was so in love with showbiz, all the different aspects - what we're doing here, making the movies, everything about it.
Show business is like Champagne. You'll appreciate it more if you don't drink it everyday
I've discovered on this journey in the entertainment industry that, especially as a girl, woman ... it's really important to try to create your own opportunities.
Film people are coming into TV, because they can't get any work.
It's a "keep your fingers crossed" business, the entertainment business.
If you are going into show business for money and power, forget it! It won't happen. You don't go for that first.
Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and finally end up in Hollywood.
Oh damn and fuck show business and all its ways.
It's a big thing now: A lot of people want to be assistants to celebrities. If you're pursuing that, you're an idiot. You're a moron. The shortest distance between two points is not a celebrity, or being next to a celebrity.
The primary job for women in Hollywood is still super-attractive actress. That is the most high-profile women's job in Hollywood.
When you're in the entertainment industry, you have to be more mature, be able to hang with the adults.
I am a movie star.
And people are always saying: 'Well, you go to Hollywood and you get yourself a film career or a TV series, and then you can do anything you want. Because then you've got the clout.' That had always sounded like a lot of hooey to me, but now I think it's true, unfortunately.
Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.
Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along.
This might be the end of the world as we know it, but it's still show biz.
We are in the entertainment business and we all know if you are top of the tree you get the big money. Those of us who have been in it are the fortunate ones but we understand that we probably don't deserve it as much as the nurses or teachers.
There are times in show business when you work so much you think you will pop your cork, and then suddenly you can't find any work.
Hollywood - it's either people who are unhappy or soon will be.
I know it's going to sound cheesy, but I love show business. I love doing comedy, I love that I get to do all this with my friends.
I got into this business because I like acting and I want to make movies. I would be happy living the rest of my life never famous.
Do you want to have a career that goes beyond, you know, 11 minutes in a 22-minute television show every week? Some people don't. That's fine.
I'm in Hollywood right now, surrounded by nothing but the sons and grandsons of movie stars.
I love being an entertainer - not really fond of being a celebrity.
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.
Waiting for opportunities in the entertainment industry is an impossibility; they are not coming. You have to make your own.
Being in the music business is a totally different industry right there.
My business is creating fame and celebrity, and I'm one of the best in the world. I know it to the finest detail. I reflect what's out there, and if there's a demand for something, I recognise it. I don't think I'm crass. I stand by everything I do.
I never wanted to be in the show business. I wanted to do special effects.
I've had 79 to 80 years of show business. I started when I was 5 with a man called Tom Mix. I didn't have time to go to school because I was in silent movies, I was in radio, I was in burlesque, I worked with the circus. I'm all show business!
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
The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.
People who go into show business are screwed up.
For some time, I thought being a producer would be a more fulfilling career than being an actor. But then I went to a conference in Cannes with 300 other producers, all desperately chasing finance for their projects ... and realized being an actor wasn't so bad after all!
In Hollywood they say there's no business like show business. In the hood they say there's no business like ho' business.
Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they all want it.
I'm really getting into acting and TV. 'Sports Illustrated' is a big, iconic brand I'd like to work for, too. But TV and acting is really funny and a bit more exciting than shooting all the time.
This industry is 90 percent business, 10 percent talent.
Actors, politicians, and writers-all of us are but creatures of the hour. Long-lasting fame comes to but few.
I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theatre, I didn't even know there was a show business!
I'm a lawyer who, on occasion, represents celebrities.
I enjoy being part of the entertainment industry, although I'm the laziest person that I've met yet in this business.
One of the towering people in this industry said, why don't you go and make a five-year contract with somebody, make yourself several million dollars and put it away, then go and do whatever you want, work for public TV if you want.
I'm in show business. I'm not like a poor factory worker who'd been laid off.
I wanted to be in show business, and I was funny.
Well I don't know because I don't have a real relationship with the industry.
If I wasn't singing, I'd probably be, probably an accountant.
When you grow up in Chicago, your whole family is counting on you to go to college and do something distinguished. The last thing you're thinking is that you're going to make a career in show business.