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.
I work in show business - there's nothing that shocks me anymore!
Thomas Gibson
14.
I'll be like Irving Berlin: "There's no business like show business."
Debbie Reynolds
17.
Anything can change in show business, you know how it goes, everything changes from one day to the other.
Ricky Martin
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, more showgirls are kept than promises.
Fred Allen
20.
On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married
Scott Bakula
21.
In show business, you get chewed up and spit out.
John Aniston
22.
I thought success in show business was everything. It isn't. I don't know what is.
Martha Raye
23.
I don't know what my life would have been like if I'd never gotten into show business.
Diana Ross
24.
I'm in a whole different part of show business. I'm not even part of Shakespeare in Love.
Eddie Murphy
25.
I love every aspect of show business and that includes both the show part of it and the business part of it.
Kristy Swanson
26.
Show business is and has always been a depraved carnival.
David Mamet
27.
Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
28.
It's also show business. It's not "show fun friends".
Lauren Graham
30.
I'm oddly not competitive. What I love about show business is there is a home for everyone.
Jay Mohr
31.
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
32.
I'd rather be a flop at show business than to be a success at something I didn't like.
George Burns
33.
You've got to know business before you go to show business.
Patti LaBelle
34.
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
35.
In show business, you can't make a living. You can only make a fortune, but you can't make a living.
Steve Guttenberg
36.
If you can survive 'Saturday Night Live,' then you're good as far as show business is concerned.
Tracy Morgan
37.
Show business pays you a lot of money, because eventually you’re gonna get screwed.
Jay Leno
38.
I'm not all that enthralled by show business, and I'm not that much of a highbrow.
Dick Cavett
39.
I have this mistress: show business.
Ray Romano
40.
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
41.
When I graduated from college I thought I was over with show business and was pursuing other things.
Anna Chlumsky
42.
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
43.
All my shows are great. Some of them are bad. But they are all great.
Michael Grade
44.
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
45.
I consider myself one of the luckiest people in the history of show business.
Dick Wolf
46.
If you are going to survive in business, show business or any business, then you have to be bold.
Rebecca Ferguson
47.
In show business, if you make a mistake, you can do it over again.
Bobby Sherman
48.
If I lose show business - I'll really be an orphan!
Red Buttons
49.
None of my family had anything to do with show business, my life was totally foreign to them.
Gloria Gaynor
50.
Is it hard to make a living in show business? Yeah.
Marc Maron