I've stated that it's possible the only reason I'm in show business is that I have such a strange, particular head of hair. That, and I can grow a red beard.
If there's anything in life you consider worthwhile achieving - go for it. I was told many times to forget show business - I had nothing going for me. But I pursued it, anyway. Voila!
You've got to know business before you go to show business.
I think 'Y&R's future is contingent upon the ratings. Obviously, none of the soaps are kept alive for the sake of loyalty. It's all about ratings. It's show business. Period.
One of the things about working on stage - actually, about working in show business, that is - is that it's such a collaborative effort. I suppose that everything in life is - every endeavor where people are able to be successful.
I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
The kind of money that show business will pay you, unless you need to have shoes made of diamonds, you can actually put it in the bank and sort of be okay.
I haven't had to do anything outside of show business my whole life. I've never been a waiter. I've only worked and gotten paid. It hasn't been a classic example of someone slogging through the business.
I just went to Harvard a little while, because I graduated from Armstrong High School in Washington and then I went up there but I didn't stay that long because I went into show business.
If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.
I did not have a happy family life a few years ago. I was divorced, and I was very alienated from my daughter, and I was out there cutting every ribbon and running around New York hosting events for different causes to supplant my loss because I didn't have a family to go home to. Now I don't want to be Mr. Show Business anymore.
I wrote a little autobiography about how luck has to do with everything. It's called 'My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business.' A publisher came to me and said, 'Write a book,' so I did. I wanted to call it 'Everybody Else Has Got a Book.'
Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along.
Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.
I've been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act.
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.
There's no one I trust in show business more than Sabrina Wind. She's my eyes and ears when I can't be there. She weighs in on everything, from scripts to sets to advertising.
I'm very happy to be employed. I always contend that in show business that if you're employed, then you're successful.
I never knew any Jews until I got into show business. I've found them to be real smart and good workers.
Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.
I have shared my whole life. My private and my show business life. It helps me actually to feel my songs and to go on with my dreams.
I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn't have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business.
I'm in show business... I want to hang out with Janet Jackson, not Jesse Jackson.
I started trying to be a writer and failed for years. I tried novels, short stories, sitcoms, movies, plays, anything. And then, to support myself, I had millions of jobs on the fringes of show business.
A lot of people say I'd miss show business if I quit. I'd miss some of it. Now it's the only life I know.
There's nobody in show business that I dislike so I wouldn't want to get in there to hurt anybody.
Most of the people I know in show business don't need anybody pushing them at all. They're extremely aggressive.
On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married.
If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.
I think one of the most difficult challenges in show business is the challenge of longevity and to constantly realize and reveal what's already been there - like doing stage and singing and dancing in New York. I haven't been that far out of my comfort zone in a while.
There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.
A belief in God is vitally important, not just in show business, but stability in life. You know, to recognize deity is the most important thing that you can do. I mean, it comes to the Ten Commandments. They weren't ten suggestions. They were Ten Commandments.
It's a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that's what it takes to be in show business.
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 knew I'd end up in show business in some capacity, eventually.
The kids don't really have any part of my television life. Fortunately, there aren't many times when show business intrudes on our family existence.
