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Quotes About Entertainment

From the start it has been the theatre's business to entertain people ... it needs no other passport than fun.
~ Bertolt Brecht
Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.
~ Martin Mull
TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.
~ Tom Brokaw
Forget about 40 years in show business. Just surviving 27 years of Nicole Richie is enough.
~ Lionel Richie
It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like.
~ Chloe Sevigny
That's what's great about show business. It's escapism. You pay your five bucks to get in and sit there and you're in another world. Forget about the problems in the world. It's wonderful.
~ Michael Jackson
There's a beauty of show business. It's the only business you can have a career in when you're dead.
~ Tom Waits
That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.
~ Benny Hill
It's show business. No show, no business.
~ Dick Wolf
We need a president who realizes that there's no government business in show business.
~ Penn Jillette
My business is making people, especially children, happy.
~ Walt Disney
There are many vampires in the world today - you only have to think of the film business.
~ Christopher Lee
There's no business like show business.
~ Irving Berlin
Once I started doing stand-up, everything fell into place. That was when I started acting more; I felt like I'd found my place in the business.
~ Chris D'Elia
It's the most unglamourous glamour business in the world.
~ Minnie Pearl
There is no business like show business. There is also no business like certified public accounting, but that doesn't rhyme as well.
~ Unknown
In Hollywood they say there's no business like show business. In the hood they say there's no business like ho' business.
~ Curtis Jackson
The movie business is a big gamble.
~ Jackie Chan
You have to remember that Hollywood is in the business of making movies that they can sell tickets to, they're not in the business of finding great roles for actors.
~ Julianne Moore
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.
~ Walter Matthau
I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill
~ Patty Duke
I always smoked cigars. I've smoked cigars with everybody in show business.
~ Al Hirt
Making a television show is not like making Coca-Cola or Bacardi rum. The human element in our business prevents us from finding a successful formula every time.
~ Desi Arnaz
I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
~ Orson Welles