Quotes About Showbiz

I guess I get to make films and I love what I do, but there's also the downside of having to be constantly present and do a lot of press, and go to festivals and do the red carpet. And that's something that's more and more part of an actor's job.

Friends are hard to come by in L.A., especially in the entertainment industry. I've known a lot of people who hang out with someone because they're working on a show, and as soon as that show gets canceled, they find someone new.

The hardest thing as an actor is that you work really hard constantly for these roles, and you invest so much in it. And when they don't come to fruition and nobody sees them, there's a part of you that dies a little bit. It's like, 'Ah! But I worked so hard!' But that's the business.

I grew up on my dad's sets, but I was never star-struck or desperate to be famous. I grew up being a worker. It took me a long time to realise that my work ended up being seen by people. As far as I was concerned, I was just in the family business.

I came from a real working-class show business family.

My dad has a lot of foresight and decided that I would not do any shows in Mumbai till I became a singer and got to sing my own songs. He knew that if I started earning money from shows, I would not have the time and aggression to rough it out to become a singer.

I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show.

Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.

I want to get my own show because 'Today' will eventually get tired of me, or the audience will get tired of me.

I never was in favor of doing this. No, no, no. I was never in favor of cursing on records and so forth. I wasn't brought up like that. But I needed to survive and make money and get me a piece of show business. So when I found I could hit with this, then I turned to it. And in order to turn to it, you must do it well.

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!

He didn't broadcast it, but Archie Leach once worked in Nashville on a bill with four performing seals.

I've ended up spending more time in front of a camera than on stage, but the stage is where I come from.

I mean, there's definitely a difference between film and live performances or live television. But at the same time, it's just performing. No matter what, it's performing.

That day, I started taking an interest in the bar's television. We always kept it on. As the hours slid by in a cacophony of talk I kept watch, throwing in the occasional comment about politicians, bankers, show biz personalities as they appeared on screen. I wasn't being nosy, you understand. Just human.

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.

That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.

When you rehearse a Broadway show, you get two months of rehearsal, while in TV, it's a much shorter process.

I've been in some wonderful shows, but nothing holds a candle to 'The Larry Sanders Show.'

I have never ever hung out with actors and comedians. I can't stand it.

I've done about everything in show business except to play on Broadway. I always hoped that I would one day. It's the World Series of show business. If anybody tells you they're not intimidated, they're lying.

The kids think we're wacky. Mum and Dad are in showbiz - they don't know any other way. They've grown up travelling all over the world and are getting a worldly education. My son is 12 and he can speak eloquently on religions and cultures.

Sometimes I think our problems are made worse by the kind of business we're in. Playing these road shows is a weird experience.

Promotions are the worst part of making a movie. We are actors and not salesmen. Still, you have to go to so many places to try and sell the movie.