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Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority.
Jim Carrey
Tags: Time Good Work
For a few years, I thought I was putting show business behind me. I was busy doing other things in life, particularly with politics. I was not out looking for films, really. I lost interest.
Hugh Grant
I've always said, I thought the Sex Pistols was more Music Hall than anything else - because I think that really, more truths are said in humour than any other form.
John Lydon
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I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.


Kanye West
Tags: Good Really Never
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Directing, writing, producing and starring is just too tough.


Stephen Chow
Tags: Just Too Writing
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I'm a good acting partner for me... when I don't have anyone else, I do really well!


Elaine Stritch
Tags: Good Me Really
A lot of producers and creative types want to see you be you. Throw something else out there and show them where you would take this part. A lot of them are launching shows for the first time, so they've got a lot riding on this, too, and they want you to be their flight.
Michael Mosley
Tags: Time You Out
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Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.


Martin Mull
Tags: Business You Like
And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.
Shaquille O'Neal
The kids don't really have any part of my television life. Fortunately, there aren't many times when show business intrudes on our family existence.
James Arness
I guess I've never really been aggressive, although almost everybody else in show business fights and gouges and knees to get where they want to be.
Andy Williams
To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no one else would have thought of putting together.
Lukas Foss
Tags: Music Me Who
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I get very creative when I'm trapped in a plane and I can't do anything else.


Shaun Tan
Tags: Get Very Anything
Directing is definitely something that is in my life for keeps, and the more I do it, the more I realize how much I want to learn and how much I have to give. And it kind of bolsters my acting - it enhances it in a really wonderful way that I wasn't expecting.
Carrie Preston
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The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of imagination. If they really understood the mysterious process of creating fiction, they would say, 'You can write about anything you can imagine.'
Tom Robbins
Jazz music and, more specifically, jazz musicians, are my artistic heroes. I want to be the Thelonious Monk of acting. He had no concern for how well he was received. He played whatever he wanted whenever he wanted. He just wasn't interested in achieving the good opinion of his audience. That's the Holy Grail of acting; of any art form.
Trevor St. John
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For me, to be perfectly honest, the part of my brain that was stimulated by directing was much more exciting than a typical day of acting.
Misha Collins
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Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
Tags: Music Me Just
As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director.
Joan Chen
Tags: Just Really Want
With Sumthin Else Music Works, I wanted to spread the love and give newcomers a chance to make it because something that really helped me were all the people who had given me an opportunity when I was putting my career together.
Nile Rodgers