#show business

Going to New York to do whatever - show business - it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the big city and meet all kinds of different people and maybe be famous. It was just exciting. So I wasn't scared. ↗

— January Jones

#big city #business #city #different #different people

I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I didn't think of it as being tough and things like that. ↗

— Billy Eckstine

#bright #business #enamored #everything #i

No matter what the role, you're trying to do the impossible - make a living in show business. ↗

— Peter Gallagher

#impossible #living #make #matter #role

Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along. ↗

— Marc Maron

#agree #along #because #business #businesses

So the English approach to show business and their work is more - and this is a big generalization, I hasten to say - but it's more, they work on it as a craft job. ↗

— Elizabeth McGovern

#big #business #craft #english #generalization

The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#business #camera #capture #fails #fee

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. ↗

— Liza Minelli

#business #cents #dollar #element #every

Years ago I wanted to buy an apartment in New York City. I was a single female - I had gone through my divorce - I had three children, I was in show business and black. It was, like, impossible. ↗

— Diana Ross

#apartment #black #business #buy #children

A belief in God is vitally important, not just in show business, but stability in life. You know, to recognize deity is the most important thing that you can do. I mean, it comes to the Ten Commandments. They weren't ten suggestions. They were Ten Commandments. ↗

— Donny Osmond

#business #comes #commandments #deity #god

I could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar, but am I expanding myself as an artist by doing covers? It's a catch-22. It's called show business: The word 'business' is in it, and you've got to be a businessman. But then again, you have to be true to yourself as an artist. ↗

— Donny Osmond

#am #artist #be true #business #businessman