I think the fact that I grew up in show business had a real effect on my personality. If you were born in New York during the golden age of television, and you grew up on Broadway, that marks you.
Magic is the oldest part of the show business profession. It can now be used as a forward-thinking tool to build a child's confidence. It has been an amazing part in many entertainers' lives, including Steve Martin and the late Johnny Carson.
I'm fortunate that I'm employed. And if you're in show business, of course, every night you go to bed and go, oh my god, tomorrow I'll never, ever work again.
My home has always been show business.
Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the complete, total focus of it was very difficult.
I was never one to seek out the spotlight. I am kind of a private person, so I don't miss that part of show business at all.
Yeah, there was a six-year period where I was pretty much done with show business. During college and then for about two years after college.
I couldn't do anything. I'd work in a department store for a couple of weeks, but I couldn't hack it. I couldn't even type! I had no skills whatsoever outside of show business.
I'm from New York; I've been in show business all my life. I'm a wild and crazy gal, yet I always play these soft, warm, loving earth mothers. It's a pain in the butt. I'm a femme fatale!
It's important in show business to have friends who understand the cut and thrust of everyday working life and the constant rejection.
There's something about that idea of looking up and hoping, and thinking, 'I'm good.' Some things, like show business, are absolutely subjective. People look at a TV show and think, 'I could do that.' And maybe they could do that. But they're not.
There's show business, and the business is sometimes in capital letters. You just have to give it your best shot when up at bat.
Imitation is the sincerest form of show business.
I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theatre, I didn't even know there was a show business!
Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the car listening to gospel band, The Blind Boys of Alabama. Hearing their lead singer Clarence made me connect the idea of church and show business and see how I could make a career singing music that stirred the soul.
I could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar, but am I expanding myself as an artist by doing covers? It's a catch-22. It's called show business: The word 'business' is in it, and you've got to be a businessman. But then again, you have to be true to yourself as an artist.
I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit.
I love the challenge of show business. It keeps me on my toes.
The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age.
Spontaneity is such an entertaining facet of show business.
Kids are brought into show business because they are cute and see truth and they're very bright. But there's a sense of doing it because you want the adults to be approving of you. You want to make them happy.
I don't have any ego about it, but I find there's not a great work ethic in show business. A lot of people are in it to make money, and coming from stand-up, you have to work so hard because almost nothing works, and if you lose the audience for three minutes, you're dead.
I am interested in a lot of things - not just show business and my passion for animals. I try to keep current in what's going on in the world. I do mental exercises. I don't have any trouble memorizing lines because of the crossword puzzles I do every day to keep my mind a little limber. I don't sit and vegetate.
Probably from, like, my freshman year of high school, I had this desire to perform and also be involved in the show business industry.
True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.
I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern.
In 40-odd years in show business, some years I could do no wrong, and some years I could do nothing right. Show business. I owe it everything - it owes me nothing.
But this is called show business, not show family.
When I'm asked how to succeed in show business, I always say I haven't the foggiest.
If bad things are going to be said about me, I have to bear that. If I don't understand that it's part of being in show business, then I'd better go work in a bank.
My father was adamant in his disapproval of my interest in show business.
That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life.
I want to tell my jokes. I want to have time with my children. I want to entertain people. And at one point, I'll walk away from show business. But I don't want to walk away empty-handed.
That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life.
I just think my life's been really blessed, because being in show business, I've met wonderful people, and I've traveled all over the world.
There is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they where working in show business.
