Quotes About Showbiz

I don't think anyone thought showbiz people know anything. I would suggest interview subjects, were told they weren't such great ideas, and then they would be assigned to somebody else. I wasn't given anything to do. I felt like the highest-paid dress extra in the world.

It's like Tom Waits said," Petty remarks. "'I'm an artist, but I'm still in show business.

The only thing harder than leaving show business is coming back.

I didn't come to Hollywood. Hollywood came to me. A lot of people wish they could say the things I say. Everyone out here is so phony, it's sickening.

Even if I aspired to be in showbiz, I felt physically inadequate being compared to my parents.

When I was starting out in this business, that was the norm. You did it all. You looked around, and entertainers could dance, sing, play the piano, act, make you laugh.

Where I came from, the idea of going into show business was just ridiculous; in fact I didn't tell anybody because I knew people would laugh at me. So I sort of snuck around and got some pictures and got a resume together and, of course, lied and said I did all kinds of things I didn't do.

If you're going to be honest with yourself, you have to admit that you go into show business wanting people to talk about you and wanting everyone to know who you are. But that also means there are going to be a whole bunch of people who don't like you. No matter who you are.

I love being in front of the camera.

I wanted to be an entertainer; I wanted to be on the big screen. I loved the cameras and the lights.

I'm a confident person next to the guy in the street, but if you go into the showbiz world, it seems the guys who are most successful are the most confident, and I don't think I fit into that category.

Before long, I'll have my own channel - I'll be like Barney.

I do want to be in mainstream movies that are going to be seen. I suppose it satisfies the showbiz side of me.

Working with Ant and Dec is so surreal.

About 30 million people see me every week - I'm a happy man.

I'm not much of a song-and-dance man.

[On turning down an invitation to appear for four minutes on the Ed Sullivan Show:] Honey, it takes Moms four minutes just to get on the stage.

Listen Columbo you're mad because your money come slow And what you make in a year I make in one show

When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me.

My Vegas act is how I make my money.

My mother was the worst kind of stage mother. She would make me and my younger sister and brother little duckling costumes and put us in kiddie shows.

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

Whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes successful in show business.

I believe that the Laws of Karma do not apply to show business, where good things happen to bad people on a fairly regular basis.