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.
When 'You've Lost that Lovin' Feeling' hit, we were doing a show called 'Shindig!' and the Righteous Brothers suddenly became big business.
It horrifies me how much it costs to put on shows now, mainly due to EU regulations. The freedom to be entrepreneurial is no longer there. It's a massive business now.
I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.
I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home.
I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer, and then I got a job as an actor.
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!
If you hang around long enough to show these people what you can do, you have a chance in this acting business.
I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.
Come to West Virginia and we'll show you how to live... how to treat people. We're open for business. West Virginia is truly on the move.
In this business, there is an insane amount of pressure, spoken and unspoken, to be thin. If you look at some of the television shows, eating disorders become like a competitive thing.
The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face.
My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one.
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.
If you can survive 'Saturday Night Live,' then you're good as far as show business is concerned.
I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.
R.K. Maroon: How much do you know about show business, Mr. Valiant? Eddie Valiant: Only that there is no business like it, no business I know. R.K. Maroon: Yeah. And there's no business more expensive. I'm 25 grand over budget on the latest Baby Herm...
I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.
Marx understood well that the press was not merely a machine but a structure for discourse, which both rules out and insists upon certain kinds of content and, inevitably, a certain kind of audience.
Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and comercials.
