Quotes & Jokes about Business / page 9
Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left.
I think I'm in a business where you have to look good, and it's totally youth-oriented.
Yesterday I saw a chicken crossing the road. I asked it why. It told me it was none of my business.
For example, in Paris, if one desires to buy something, you enter the store and say "Good morning, sir" or "madam," depending on what is appropriate, you wait until you are greeted, you make polite chitchat about the weather or some such, and when the salesperson asks what they can do for you, then and only then do you bring up the vulgar business of the transaction you require.
When the Academy called, I panicked. I thought they might want their Oscars back and the pawn shop has been out of business for a while.
I think people are used to people in show business having a lot of hubris. I think I have a normal amount of self-loathing but because I'm in show business it's considered self-deprecation. In normal life I would just be considered your average neurotic.
Oh, when I was a kid in show business I was poor, I used to go to orgies to eat the grapes.
My friend said, 'Try lamb skin. They're really thin. Lamb skin condoms, they're good.' And they are. What he didn't tell me was that right when you begin to conduct business, the whole room smells like a gyro. We were doing our thing. She said, 'What's that?' I said, 'I don't know, but I'm getting hungry.'