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Quotes About Industry

Make the best use of both time and money. Add industry and frugal dealings if they pay very well and if you're free to it.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Pretty much any time in my career where I worked on television it was usually because of some financial woes or something.
~ Brady Corbet
So many artists who came out during that time, including myself, were able to get on radio. New forms of singer-songwriters developed out of that.
~ Carly Simon
The last time a straight man worked in the fashion industry, we got a fanny pack.
~ Chelsea Handler
I came along at a time when the industry was eating its young.
~ Chely Wright
A career like mine as an actor has a lot of ups and downs. Sometimes you wonder if you're not wasting your time trying to carve out a space for yourself in this crazy entertainment industry.
~ Chris Carmack
Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people.
~ Christiane Amanpour
There was a time when certain producers could produce just about anything, and the label execs would say, "That's a such-and-such record. Let's put that out as the first single."
~ Damon Thomas
It takes so long to put a movie into production and finish it that anyone with a bad idea has time to give it to you before the movie is completed.
~ Dave Foley
At one time there were voiceover artists, now there are celebrity voiceover artists. It's unfortunate because these people need the money less than the voiceover artist.
~ David Duchovny
It didn't happen every time for every movie. Ruthless People was a good movie, but we didn't get a good release or marketing. They completely blew the opening.
~ David Zucker
Johnny Cash has only passed into the greater light. He will only become more important in this industry as time goes by.
~ Dolly Parton
I can't wait until the record label feels like it's time for my album to come out, and then just disappear.
~ Donnis
I can't have a daily routine. I feel really overwhelmed a lot of the time. I don't take much comfort in routine, but if I don't start, I could really get eaten alive by my industry.
~ Dylan Gelulla
I think everything keeps changing. There was a time when television was a bad thing for actors and it meant that you could only do television, and now we see everyone does television.
~ Dylan McDermott
Making movies is time-consuming and it's boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It's like a big machine that moves slowly.
~ Eddie Murphy
Hollywood is responsible for some of the greatest and worst movies of all time!
~ Ricky Gervais
Fortunately, I happened to go east at a time when live television was centered in New York.
~ Roddy McDowall
Artists don't always know. Almost every song I ever recorded that was a hit at the majors that the promotional people picked I didn't think it would be a hit. I was wrong every time!
~ Roy Ayers
I love Hollywood films and when they're done right, they're great. At the same time, I think it's always hard to come on to something that preexists.
~ Rupert Wyatt
When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.
~ Taylor Dane
Every Man owes some of his time to the upbuilding of the profession to which he belongs.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Nobody in Hollywood ever sets out to make a bad movie ever but about 99% of the time, that's what happens.
~ Thomas Lennon
Being a working person who works for the studios. It's a minefield and there's tons of stuff you need to know. And people mess it up all the time.
~ Thomas Lennon