In 40-odd years in show business, some years I could do no wrong, and some years I could do nothing right. Show business. I owe it everything - it owes me nothing.
If I lose show business - I'll really be an orphan!
I always smoked cigars. I've smoked cigars with everybody in show business.
I've been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act.
Success in show business depends on your ability to make and keep friends.
Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.
In show business, if you make a mistake, you can do it over again.
I'm very happy to be employed. I always contend that in show business that if you're employed, then you're successful.
That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life.
I work in show business - there's nothing that shocks me anymore!
I love every aspect of show business and that includes both the show part of it and the business part of it.
If you are going to survive in business, show business or any business, then you have to be bold.
But this is called show business, not show family.
There were a lot of signs being thrown at me. A lot of angels I was meeting, inspiring me to get back into show business.
I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern.
As far as show business, it's the gratification of doing something that pleases the fans.
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.
I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit.
On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married
You've got to know business before you go to show business.
People who go into show business are screwed up.
Anything can change in show business; you know how it goes, everything changes from one day to the other.
Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.
Is it hard to make a living in show business? Yeah.
Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.
It's a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that's what it takes to be in show business.
When I graduated from college I thought I was over with show business and was pursuing other things.
There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business.
Imitation is the sincerest form of show business.
I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.
Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person.
I stayed in show business to pay for my animal business.
I'm not all that enthralled by show business, and I'm not that much of a highbrow.
That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.
I'm in a whole different part of show business. I'm not even part of Shakespeare in Love.
A lot of show business, as you know, is about all the contacts you make and who you know.
It's show business. No show, no business.
I consider myself one of the luckiest people in the history of show business.
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.
I'll be like Irving Berlin: "There's no business like show business."
I'll just stay in [show business] till they stuff me like Trigger, when I drop dead.
I come from a show-business family, so wanting to become an actor never crossed my mind. It was just a part of my life.
Show business got really tainted for me.
Show business is and has always been a depraved carnival.
Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.
I'd rather be a flop at show business than to be a success at something I didn't like.
It's one of the old show business axioms. No matter how successful you've been, there's always a younger and sexier seal coming along.
When I'm asked how to succeed in show business, I always say I haven't the foggiest
In show business, more showgirls are kept than promises.
It's easier to get on show business, the hard part is to maintain. Nobody stays famous forever.
For the most part, comedy is the only fair part of show business.
I love when I am around a veteran in [show] business. Because I can dig and ask questions, and find out the "who" and "what" of it all.
I'm always interested in the unexpected and know that things, especially in show business, but in life generally, are inevitably fleeting to one extent.
Its called show business, not show art.
I knew early in life that I wanted a show business career.
None of my family had anything to do with show business, my life was totally foreign to them.
I'm oddly not competitive. What I love about show business is there is a home for everyone.
Show business pays you a lot of money because eventually you’re gonna get screwed.
Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.
All my shows are great. Some of them are bad. But they are all great.
There's no show business in Canada, so everybody just did stand-up and we all thought, "Oh, we'll just keep doing stand-up." And then I'm like, "There's more work in the States."
There's no job in show business that's harder than any other job outside show business.
In show business, you get chewed up and spit out.
One of the reasons we moved to L.A. in the first place [was] so that it was no big deal that I was in show business. We decided if we move[d] to L.A., then everyone in one way or another was involved in it.
Show business is a great place to fail upward... and I guess that's what I've done.
Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.
There is indeed a business like show business. It's the news.
I wanted to entertain so badly that I kept at it until I was good. I just browbeat my way into show business.
I wanted to be a model; I wanted to be a nurse; I wanted to be so many things, almost anything but being part of show business.
Benedict Cumberbatch is not only the best name in show business, it's also the response you get when you ask John Travolta to pronounce Ben Affleck.
I'm not in show business; I'm in the communications business. That's what it's about for me.
I came from a real working-class show business family.
Show business is what I do, not what I am.
There's a beauty of show business. It's the only business you can have a career in when you're dead.
Teaching is a form of show business.
My home has always been show business.
I have this mistress: show business.
In show business, you can't make a living. You can only make a fortune, but you can't make a living.
If you can survive 'Saturday Night Live,' then you're good as far as show business is concerned.
Outside of show business, I live a normal life.
You can't be a kid in show business. You will not survive.
Government is not show business.