quotations about show business
A lot of people don't understand that show business comes with a lot and there are layers that you have to deal with. It's a mental game and lot of guys can't deal with it. They can get torn down in their mind about life. The good thing about my situation is that I have been told "no" a lot as a kid. So rejection means nothing to me. I would just say "all good" and come back at you 100 times harder.
MIKE EPPS
"American comic Mike Epps: 'A lot of people don't understand that show business comes with a lot'", The National, August 16, 2017
There are two reasons why I am successful in show business and I am standing on both of them.
BETTY GRABLE
attributed, The Encarta Book of Quotations
I'm ... still running to the next show, coming alive under the lights, still making love to an audience that I know will go home and make love to one another and leave me alone again.
SAMMY DAVIS, JR.
attributed, Life Upon the Wicked Stage: A Sociological Study of Entertainers
Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.
JOHN GUARE
London Independent, April 25, 1992
Street wise, cat's eye's
Show business smile
Lookin' for today's mark
On the golden mile
Book wise, movie eyed
So cool dudes.
Ain't gonna do no talking
When they find out they been used.
NAZARETH
"Turning a New Leaf"
Diving through a looking glass
Just like the greatest stars
You don't have to be yourself
Change into someone else
Pace another sound bite
Make a million overnight
Give up your private life
Spotlight shines so bright
Show business
ELEKTRIC MUSIC
"Show Business"
Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offered to you.
TOMMY STEELE
London Listener, October 10, 1974