Quotes About Showbiz

That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.

I'm not even worried about settling down. I think it's way too early. I'm 25 and I'm in show business. I mean, if things go well, my wife hasn't even been born yet.

It's the most unglamourous glamour business in the world.

My theory has always been that everyone in show business is there because they were deprived of some attention as a child.

Get out of show business. Its the best advice I ever got, because Im so stubborn that if someone would tell me that, I would stay in it to the bitter end.

I always smoked cigars. I've smoked cigars with everybody in show business.

I am constantly asked why I never made other films after 'There's No Business Like Show Business,' the answer is I was never asked.

For the most part, comedy is the only fair part of show business.

People always say, well, how do you get through show business? How do you swim the waters? And how do you survive and all that? I had a very solid method, and that is team up with ambitious partners.

Anything can change in show business, you know how it goes, everything changes from one day to the other.

After a hit show is over, you soon realize this is a very tough business ... brutally tough. But I'm a better actor and I have more gravitas than I had at 24 with bleached-blonde hair.

I have a bad gambling problem. You're not in show business for 12 years and dress like this without a bad gambling problem.

If I'd married someone in show business, there'd be too much competition.

I thought success in show business was everything. It isn't. I don't know what is.

I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit.

As far as show business, it's the gratification of doing something that pleases the fans.

In show business, if you make a mistake, you can do it over again.

I consider myself one of the luckiest people in the history of show business.

I must be the only person of my age who doesn't have a bloody gong. They are so common in show business.

You still have that competitive thing where you want to try to make hits. That won't go away, unless the mayor of show business says my time's up.

Will Ferrell is a dangerous man. If he thinks you're in his way in show business, he will crack your head open. He's the Jeff Gillooly of comedy.

I'm in the entertainment business, where you're only as good as your last show.

What happened was, my parents after Circus Boy decided to take me out of show business for two years to go back to normal school. It was the smartest thing they ever did.

If I can sell out clubs and theaters and play dirtbags in movies, and get blown up in a car or get the crap beat out of me in a movie, that's good for me; I'm good.