1.
Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.
Martin Mull
2.
There is indeed a business like show business. It's the news.
Paul Krassner
3.
I'm not in show business; I'm in the communications business. That's what it's about for me.
Richie Havens
4.
There's a beauty of show business. It's the only business you can have a career in when you're dead.
Tom Waits
5.
Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.
James Dyson
7.
It's show business. No show, no business.
Dick Wolf
8.
You can't be a kid in show business. You will not survive.
Vanessa Hudgens
9.
I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.
J.K. Simmons
10.
I was disillusioned by Hollywood at the time, but now I've come to accept that's just the way things are: it's called show business, not show art.
Jean Seberg
11.
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.
Donny Osmond
12.
For the most part, comedy is the only fair part of show business.
Chris Rock
13.
Anything can change in show business, you know how it goes, everything changes from one day to the other.
Ricky Martin
14.
I work in show business - there's nothing that shocks me anymore!
Thomas Gibson
15.
I'll be like Irving Berlin: "There's no business like show business."
Debbie Reynolds
18.
Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person.
Meryl Streep
19.
In show business, you get chewed up and spit out.
John Aniston
20.
I thought success in show business was everything. It isn't. I don't know what is.
Martha Raye
21.
In show business, more showgirls are kept than promises.
Fred Allen
22.
On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married
Scott Bakula
23.
I love every aspect of show business and that includes both the show part of it and the business part of it.
Kristy Swanson
24.
I'm in a whole different part of show business. I'm not even part of Shakespeare in Love.
Eddie Murphy
25.
Show business is and has always been a depraved carnival.
David Mamet
26.
I don't know what my life would have been like if I'd never gotten into show business.
Diana Ross
27.
In show business, if you make a mistake, you can do it over again.
Bobby Sherman
28.
If I lose show business - I'll really be an orphan!
Red Buttons
29.
None of my family had anything to do with show business, my life was totally foreign to them.
Gloria Gaynor
30.
Is it hard to make a living in show business? Yeah.
Marc Maron
31.
But this is called show business, not show family.
Alice Barrett
32.
Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
33.
It's also show business. It's not "show fun friends".
Lauren Graham
35.
TV shows and stuff give people in the show business very bad names. I'm not going to name any shows, but a lot of shows.
Chloe Grace Moretz
36.
I'm oddly not competitive. What I love about show business is there is a home for everyone.
Jay Mohr
37.
I'd rather be a flop at show business than to be a success at something I didn't like.
George Burns
38.
You've got to know business before you go to show business.
Patti LaBelle
39.
There were a lot of signs being thrown at me. A lot of angels I was meeting, inspiring me to get back into show business.
Anna Chlumsky
40.
In show business, you can't make a living. You can only make a fortune, but you can't make a living.
Steve Guttenberg
41.
If you can survive 'Saturday Night Live,' then you're good as far as show business is concerned.
Tracy Morgan
42.
Show business pays you a lot of money, because eventually you’re gonna get screwed.
Jay Leno
43.
I have this mistress: show business.
Ray Romano
44.
I like my work, but my life always comes first. I always wanted to have a beautiful life, and the way to do it is in show business.
Marianne Faithfull
45.
I'm not all that enthralled by show business, and I'm not that much of a highbrow.
Dick Cavett
46.
When I graduated from college I thought I was over with show business and was pursuing other things.
Anna Chlumsky
47.
I'm very happy to be employed. I always contend that in show business that if you're employed, then you're successful.
Lance Burton
48.
All my shows are great. Some of them are bad. But they are all great.
Michael Grade
49.
I pride myself on being down-to-earth. I’m from the Midwest. People who go into show business are screwed up. I romanticized about having a serene life.
Craig Kilborn
50.
I consider myself one of the luckiest people in the history of show business.
Dick Wolf