quotations about show business
I cannot stand the people who get wonderful starts in show business, and who abuse it. Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen, for example, although there are plenty of others, too. They are the most blessed people in the world and they don't appreciate it.
BETTY WHITE
Daily Mail, April 7, 2011
Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offered to you.
TOMMY STEELE
London Listener, October 10, 1974
Nowadays almost every business is like show business, including politics, which has become more like show business than show business is.
RUSSELL BAKER
"The Face Game"
Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.
SAMMY DAVIS, JR.
attributed, Life Upon the Wicked Stage: A Sociological Study of Entertainers
A lot of people don't understand that show business comes with a lot and there are layers that you have to deal with. It's a mental game and lot of guys can't deal with it. They can get torn down in their mind about life. The good thing about my situation is that I have been told "no" a lot as a kid. So rejection means nothing to me. I would just say "all good" and come back at you 100 times harder.
MIKE EPPS
"American comic Mike Epps: 'A lot of people don't understand that show business comes with a lot'", The National, August 16, 2017
Show business is a world all its own, and often not a very nice one, and definitely not an easy one. Give it thought before you get too deeply involved. Stop and think just what you are willing to do to be a success.
P. J. HORNBECK
Life's Rainbow
Street wise, cat's eye's
Show business smile
Lookin' for today's mark
On the golden mile
Book wise, movie eyed
So cool dudes.
Ain't gonna do no talking
When they find out they been used.
NAZARETH
"Turning a New Leaf"