“In what other business can a man my age walk out on stage, smoke a cigar, tell a few jokes, sing a few songs, and use the same color lipstick that Dolores del Rio uses?”
George Burns - Milt Lackey

“I've been in this racquet for years. If you don't get a good break, you get a bad one. That's show business.”
Clark Gable - Patch Gallagher

“You call that news? We peddle disaster! And violence, it's commercial! Blood and tears and football and cheers. Performers, superstars. Get them on, get them off. Next, next, fast, fast! We're in the entertainment business. There's nothing wrong with that... if you call it that.”

Sir Sean Connery - Patrick Hale

“This is not a business, this is show business. Punching below the belt is not only all right, it's rewarded.”
Benicio del Toro - Rex

“It's not like we're hardened criminals here. We're in show business.”
Hank Azaria - Albert Freedman