Quotes About Industry

I long for the days when grosses were not even known. There was no weekend competition.

There are films that cost a lot of money that might be decent films. But if they don't perform in that first weekend or two, they're gone.

So when 'Skatetown' came up at Columbia and Ray Stark's studio, the idea was to do it quick. They wanted it out in the fall, and they gave me the treatment on July 4th weekend! I wrote it in four days, and, you know, it kind of looks like it.

Poison is one of the first, if not the first, truly independent bands to sell 3 million copies of our first record. It was before we were with a big company.

I never go to these showbiz parties. I avoid them with a 10-inch pole.

As a black woman in the industry, you really do have to hold your head higher, stick your chest out, be kind and polite and generous even when you don't want to be sometimes. I learned that and, also, just to never take no for an answer.

Just because I'm the top-grossing actress of all time does not mean I'm the highest paid. I've had to fight for everything that I have. It's such a fickle and political industry.

I believe that cinema is not only an artistic industry, but there is also a political activity.

I'd be curious to find out, but I don't think people in the entertainment industry are proportionally more or less serious politically than anyone in the landscaping industry.

After establishing myself as politician I will take decision about my future in film industry.

My father was a politician and I had no contacts in the music industry, but I could still do some good work because I was passionate enough and dedicated towards music.

Politicians said that with our cheap labour, we could be competitive in the world. Nothing could be further from the truth. We were the most uncompetitive country with that cheap labour.

There is a lot of musical pollution in the film industry.

I love old industrial imagery and smokestacks belching pollution, maybe because Iceland doesn't have any industry, just mountains and beautiful nature.

The comedy world is like a small pond; we all know each other.

I'm from a generation of fantastic actresses. It's a big pool of really wonderful actresses, and so many of them we never even get to see on the screen anymore.

Businesses want to be in places where there is a deep talent pool.

The WWE is fine. They can afford to not only sign anybody they really want, but they can also afford to sign people just to keep them out of the talent pool that everybody else has.

I think you can assume because our pool of Asian-Americans actresses or actors - men and women - is pretty small, that whatever project is out there I probably have been asked to audition or I probably chose to not go in it for various aspects.

Any industry where there's a lot of money to be made and there are poor people involved, there's going to be some exploitation on some level.

Pop is in a shocking state at the moment.

There hasn't been that many indigenous Australians who have made it in the pop industry.

Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.

A lot of pop music is based on trying to make people remember it so that they'll buy it. To me, it was not about that.