Entertainment Business Quotes

For me to be in the entertainment business for as long as I have, for 15 years and been relevant, been successful, continue to do shows, sell out shows, traveling and everything ... ~ Ginuwine

Thank god, I can't sing because that would be a lot of pressure. But yeah, it's nice doing something different and that's something I really feel like is my own passion. It's also connected. Everything is connected in the entertainment business, so I have the support of my parents because they've been through it all before and they can give me advice. ~ Eve Hewson

We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want. ~ Ice Cube

Michael Eisner let it be known last week that he had no intention of leaving the entertainment business once he steps down as CEO of Disney in October. ~ Peter Bart

I've never considered myself a celebrity or even part of the entertainment business. I'm a cooking teacher. ~ Martin Yan

I kind of get a next-gen game machine, but competing for the home entertainment business? We'll see how that goes. ~ Warren Spector

I'm in the entertainment business, where you're only as good as your last show. ~ Matthew Weiner

But I grew up in a place where no one knew anyone in the entertainment business, I never knew it was an actual career. The closest I ever got to movies was going to watch them, and I thought that's the way it would be, so I never considered working in this business. ~ Joseph Kosinski

A lot of people find themselves in the entertainment business - or perhaps society steers them toward it - because they're beautiful. ~ Nick Offerman

Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record. ~ Nile Rodgers

Anything in the entertainment business, there's sharks coming around. It's about staying true to yourself and making sure that, when you look in the mirror, you're happy with what you see. ~ O'Shea Jackson, Jr.

I can't work all day and then go home and hang out with the same people. I don't want everything to revolve around the entertainment business. Yes, that's my career, but it's not my life. ~ Keke Palmer

The successes in the entertainment business are like one percent of the iceberg that you see, and the other ninety-nine percent, which is the rejection and the failure and the work and the toil and the sacrifice, is the rest of the iceberg that's below the water. ~ Jonathan Tucker

The entertainment business is hard on relationships, but it's just as hard on your own spiritual well-being. It's easy to lose focus, to forget your priorities and wander from the path. There is not any one thing you can do to survive this desert. It's a matter of maintenance, of the small things you do every day and every week to keep the engine running smoothly. ~ Ralph K. Winter, Jr.

My #1 job as a thriller author is to give readers the best white-knuckle thrill ride I am capable of. I am first and foremost in the entertainment business. If that suspenseful ride is also terrifying because it hits really close to home, then I am once again doing what I am supposed to do as a thriller author. ~ Brad Thor

The entertainment business is such a strange, crazy perception business that you're either given way too much respect, like people saying, "You should be the head of the sitcom!" Or you're given no respect, where they're like, "You should audition to be the garbage man that lives four houses down." ~ Jim Gaffigan

In major movies these days, the fine details of music, instrumentation and sound design are lost. This is a shame, and it is one of the various reasons that make me not want to be part of the entertainment business. Although I have done it in the past, finally I know that I'm not here to create industry products. Music is more than images, it's more than language ... it's the medium that's capable of communicating the answers to the Big Questions. ~ Julius Dobos

We are in the entertainment business and we all know if you are top of the tree you get the big money. Those of us who have been in it are the fortunate ones but we understand that we probably don't deserve it as much as the nurses or teachers. ~ Gary Lineker

... some of us had built whole careers - pointing out how unfair and whimsical and chaotic the entertainment business was, how it rarely rewarded the truly talented. None of us could see how it never rewarded the inert ~ Patton Oswalt

I'd like to see myself married with a child and hopefully still involved in the entertainment business as an actor who is also able to write a bit and direct some projects. ~ Fred Savage

For many of the most powerful people in the entertainment business, hostility to organized religion goes so deep and burns so intensely that they insist on expressing that hostility, even at the risk of financial disaster. ~ Michael Medved

I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other. ~ Dennis Farina

Other than my sexuality, I am vulnerable regarding my physical appearance, as I am not what people considered ideal by most standards. For the entertainment business, I am not the body type of what is typically cast for television or movies. ~ Alex Newell

The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious. ~ Quincy Jones

Recognizing that the movie business was the entertainment business that wasn't moving fast enough to fill my creative and financial coffers was an impetus to grow, and that has taken me and so many of my colleagues into a larger world. ~ Lynda Obst

Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland. ~ Eartha Kitt

People say child stars have a hard time 'because of the entertainment business,' but I think there's a dysfunction before all that. I use the analogy, 'If you're a fool without money, you'll be a fool with money.' ~ Tia Mowry

For the past 32 years, I've done nothing outside the entertainment business. I've had some real highs and some real lows, but I love the work so much that I never once thought of quitting. ~ Meat Loaf

The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me. ~ Dan Aykroyd

I don't have family members calling me and saying, "Is this rumor about you in the newspaper true?," because they know it's all bullshit. I already have that support system, and it's actually been really helpful. My parents have been in the entertainment business for so long that they really know what not to do. ~ Eve Hewson

It's tough because a lot of my friends in normal life, a lot of my friends in the entertainment business, and a lot of my friends in the wrestling business are gay. Just to say something spiteful and hurtful, I don't get it ... if it was true and I was gay, I'd embrace it, and I'd tell you guys about it and I'd celebrate it. ~ Hulk Hogan

We have rights in America. In tandem with those rights, we have responsibility. Whatever type of journalist we are, whether it be in the entertainment business, or as professional journalists, we always have the consequences of the way we present fact and information. ~ Mike Pence

I've always believed my success in the entertainment business is an inevitability. You have to believe that; you have to be an optimist. ~ Holt McCallany

I am not in the entertainment business; I am in the justice business. ~ Eric Schneiderman

When I first started out in the entertainment business, I made a list of people I thought it would be good to meet. Not people who could give me a job or a deal, but people who could shake me up, teach me something, challenge my ideas about myself and the world. ~ Brian Grazer

With any entertainment business, you sort of have to be OK with just going with it. I've learned very much to just go with the flow and see what happens with my life, and what happens happens. ~ Aubrey Peeples

I started The McCoys in 1962, so I'm approaching my 40th year in the entertainment business. ~ Rick Derringer

I don't know if I have good habits, but I'm very devoted to writing. I'm very compulsive about having a project, at least one, and trying to follow the business as much as I can. I keep on top of all the entertainment business news. ~ Robert Lopez

I have been in the entertainment business some forty-three years, and I have never said anything detrimental or anything that might be construed as belittling any race or religion. I would be a sucker to do so because you can't insult the customers. ~ W.C. Fields

Gilbert was always saying that he loved people. He needed them around him. He was always saying that he loved me, and I imagine he honestly believed this, though of course his handling of my career reflected favorably on himself. Love never did mean quite the same thing in the entertainment business as in less volatile circles. ~ John P. Marquand

I'm very expressive, but I'm also a very private person. It is so hard to be private in the entertainment business. ~ Shirley Eaton

Journalism is the entertainment business. ~ Frank Herbert

As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they're in the kitchen cooking. So it's understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it. ~ Kevin Hart

I grew up in a place where no one knew anyone in the entertainment business, I never knew it was an actual career. ~ Joseph Kosinski

Since I'm in the entertainment business, I think I have to hold a mirror up to myself and say, 'Am I complicit in miseducating and misinforming our youth by participating in this business, or can I use this business to re-educate and uplift?' ~ Hill Harper

I'd like to see animals removed from the entertainment business. Chimpanzees and apes won't perform unless you beat them. Circuses keep elephants in chains 90 percent of the time. Elephants need freedom of movement. In circuses, they live in cramped quarters, which is not the life intended for them by nature. Some are beaten daily, forced to do ridiculous tricks and robbed of every shred of dignity. ~ Bob Barker

There is no blacklist. In the first place, in the entertainment business, money talks, bullshit walks. So Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins won't be blacklisted because they are bankable stars. In the second place, if you are a woman, the only things you're going to be blacklisted for in Hollywood are body fat and aging. ~ Janeane Garofalo

Day baseball is now dead for all practical purposes. Sooner or later, the game will be played in its entirety at night, and as I've said before, then baseball will be squarely in the amusement, the entertainment business along with wrestling, midget auto racing and the trotting tracks. ~ Larry MacPhail

We have this culture of financialization. People think they need to make money with their savings rather with their own business. So you end up with dentists who are more traders than dentists. A dentist should drill teeth and use whatever he does in the stock market for entertainment. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

My mother has always been my role model, and I believe my survival in the entertainment business is in large part due to my desire to be a strong woman like my mother. She is my hero. ~ Marie Osmond

I realize that the majority of people in the entertainment business happen to be Democrats. I have no problem with that. And they should have no problem with the fact that I'm a Republican. ~ Shannen Doherty

Everyone in the entertainment business gets crappy contracts when we start out, and into the middle of our careers. It's the nature of the business. ~ J. Michael Straczynski

The entertainment business remains a business of blockbusters, and increasingly so. ~ Anita Elberse

As an artist, illustrator, and photographer, most of my daily work was formed around the Art & Entertainment business, which was about packaging ideas that looked like they were crafted as artist ideas. In the distributed products, my artist credit was hidden inside the package of the artist or entertainment personality. ~ John Van Hamersveld

In the entertainment business, the biggest gift you could ever get is not an Oscar, it's not a Grammy, it's longevity. ~ Christian Kane

Professional football is a job and it's in the entertainment business. ~ John Riggins

Nothing surprises me when it comes to people in the entertainment business. ~ Adam Goldberg

There are no rules in the entertainment business. ~ Zakk Wylde

It's a "keep your fingers crossed" business, the entertainment business. ~ George Carlin

One thing about everything that I've done is it's so diverse and all over the place, from doing crazy stunts that I can't believe that I've done to launching professional skateboard leagues to all types of different business stuff and television shows. To me, I'm real proud of the body of work, that I've done as opposed to one thing specifically. ~ Rob Dyrdek

I think a book is your calling card, your business card. ~ Kevin O'Leary

I am a huge fan of Alan Furst. Furst is the best in the business
the most talented espionage novelist of our generation. ~ Vince Flynn

But it is never about who has given what. That is not the way of gifts. This is not a business we are conducting. ~ Ann Patchett

Politicians lie with almost every breath they mustered, and didn't hesitate to slit each other's throats for gain. They were whores willing to sell their vote to the highest bidder. The second was ineffectiveness. Politicians did not represent the people who elected them. They might have held onto the delusion that they served the public, but the only thing they represented was big business ~ Richard Stephenson

Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. Indeed, many business leaders deny that there is any conflict between self-interest and the interests of all. ~ Peter Singer

This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery was an accursed business, and that the sooner my people were relieved of it, the better. ~ John Sergeant Wise

People who are artists, they want their music, their art, their acting craft to get out. And once it's appreciated, that seems to be, unfortunately, enough. But you got to take care of your business, surround yourself with good counsel, and that didn't happen. ~ Michael Wright

What you choose to do with all that anger is your business. But you can't control the world; someone will always be there to wrong you. It's your choice to let it go. ~ Laura Thalassa

I have targets for business achievements; I do not have targets for acquisitions. Because if you have targets for acquisitions, you end up making compromises in terms of valuations, and you buy things because you have a target, and it is not good for business. ~ Dilip Shanghvi

As for the blood and the head business, the blood and the head work together and what is not first in the blood can sometimes reach it by going first through the head and what is wrong in the blood can sometimes be tempered by the head. ~ Flannery O'Connor

If companies are in business solely to make money, no consumer can fully trust what they do or say. ~ Anita Roddick

The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified. ~ Oliver DeMille

The formation of the News America Publishing Group will lead to greater editorial excitement, new business opportunities and greater efficiencies and coordination. ~ Peter Chernin

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business. ~ Victor Kiam

The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner. ~ Francis Bacon

Trying to tart the rock business up a bit is getting nearer to what the kids themselves are like, because what I find, if you want to talk in the terms of rock, a lot depends on sensationalism and the kids are a lot more sensational than the stars themselves. ~ David Bowie

Execution really shapes whether your company takes off or not. ~ Pete Cashmore

Failure to commit is as bad as failure to start. ~ David Hieatt

When Bill Archer (R-Tex.) was chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, he routinely quoted an informal survey of five hundred international companies located in Europe and Japan. These companies were asked, "What would you do in your long-term planning if the United States eliminated all taxes on capital and labor and taxed only personal consumption?" Eighty percent - that's four hundred out of five hundred companies - said they would build their next plant in America. The remaining 20 percent - the other hundred companies - said they would relocate their business to America altogether. ~ Neal Boortz

But you don't get into a business because of personal tastes. ~ Peter Munk

The process of sanctifying life could thus almost take on the character of a business enterprise. ~ Max Weber

We see what a punishing business it is, simply being alive. ~ Sarah Waters

I was quite convinced that I didn't want to be a lawyer. But I felt that law school would be a useful way to understand public policy and to understand business in this environment. ~ Kevin Warsh

I don't have a problem with fame. I got into this business intending to be very successful, but I wanted it to be at my price. ~ Jason Patric

We'll I'd like to see the woman that wouldn't defend her kin any way possible, and see what she's made of. Anyone who hasn't got some backbone has no business trying to live in the Territories. ~ Nancy E. Turner

A business that doesn't change is a business that is going to die. ~ Frank Perdue

My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex. ~ Anthony Braxton

In business, there are no bad people. No one comes in to work to do a bad job on purpose. ~ David E. Wile

It is a commonplace executive observation that businesses exist to make money, and the observation is usually allowed to go unchallenged. It is, however, a very limited statement about the purposes of business ~ Daniel Katz

Sir, if you don't pay this bill by the close of business on Friday; we will be forced to disconnect your service. ~ Jon Jones

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt. (p. 21) ~ Rollo May

This is not new: people do business with people they like, know and trust. Taking that axiom in to account, would YOU trust YOU? ~ Beth Ramsay

When you want to move somebody, you have to say to yourself: 'I'm in the emotional transportation business. I gotta move them, emotionally.' ~ Peter Guber

The boy, Max Rüst, will later on become a tinker, father of seven more Rüsts, he will go to work for the firm of Hallis & Co., Plumbing and Roofing, in Grünau. At the age of 52 he will win a quarter of a prize in the Prussian Class Lottery, then he will retire from business and die during an adjustment suit which he has started against the firm of Hallis & Co., at the age of 55. His obituary will read as follows: On September, suddenly, from heart-disease, my beloved husband, our dear father, son, brother, brother-in-law, and uncle, Paul Rüst, in his 55th year. This announcement is made with deep grief on behalf of his sorrowing family by Marie Rüst. The notice of thanks after the funeral will read as follows: Acknowledgment. Being unable to acknowledge individually all tokens of sympathy in our bereavement, we hereby express our profound gratitude to all relatives, friends, as well as to the tenants of No. 4 Kleiststrasse and to all our acquaintances. Especially do we thank Herr Deinen for his kind words of sympathy. At present his Max Rüst is 14 years old, has just finished public school, is supposed to call by on his way there at the clinic for the defective in speech, the hard of hearing, the weak-visioned, the weak-minded, the in-corrigible, he has been there at frequent intervals, because he stutters, but he is getting better now. ~ Alfred Doblin

A man with a full stomach and the respect of his fellows had no business to scold about anything that he might think to be wrong in the ways of the universe, or even with the ways of society. Let the unfortunates rail; the others may play marbles. ~ Stephen Crane