Quotes & Jokes about Business / page 6

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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.

There's no doubt about it, show business lures the people who didn't get enough love, attention, or approval early in life and have grown up to become bottomless, gaping vessels of terrifying, abject need. Please laugh.

I’ve made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I’ve mostly been successful.

I was in front of an ambulance the other day, and I noticed that the word "ambulance" was spelled in reverse print on the hood of the ambulance. And I thought, "Well, isn't that clever." I look in the rear-view mirror; I can read the word "ambulance" behind me. Of course while you're reading, you don't see where you're going, you crash. You need an ambulance. I think they're trying to drum up some business on the way back from lunch.

When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business; I have to humiliate myself.

Of course in show business there are two ways to play it and I am not politically correct so I am not going to get endorsements or anything like that.

My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.

Some are from the world of the arts, some from the fields of business, architecture, wine-making and education. What they have in common is that they are all known nationally - and many internationally - for their wide-ranging achievements.

Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.

I’m in a whole different part of show business. I’m not even part of Shakespeare in Love.

The best thing I ever heard about doing comedy is that it’s the "business of rejection".

I'm so secretive that when someone asks me, "Hey, can you keep a secret?" I say "That's none of your business."

Find me any performer anywhere who isn't egocentric. You'd better believe you're good, or you've got no business being out there.

If I lose show business - I'll really be an orphan!