David Henrie Quotes

I think the fact that I grew up in show business had a real effect on my personality. If you were born in New York during the golden age of television, and you grew up on Broadway, that marks you.

I was raised in Hollywood and knew, from as early as grammar school, classmates who were in the business.

The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age.

I tell people all of the time that they would make any show in this business - whether it's black, white, Hispanic, Jewish, Colombian, Dominican - whatever. They'll make it if it sells. It's a business. It's not personal.

Well, they just don't know anything else except that one form of their business, acting, and they don't really want to learn any other part of it, or they would. Directing and producing and putting a show together is very creative, for me.

If nobody has really done a show about people in their twenties that has been successful, why?

I'm in show business... I want to hang out with Janet Jackson, not Jesse Jackson.

I was going to move to New York after college and had no interest in pilot season. I'd seen what happened on TV shows because of my dad, and I didn't want to open myself up to that. But 'Pretty Little Liars' had a very early audition, and my agents encouraged me to go even though I didn't think it would be my thing.

I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theatre, I didn't even know there was a show business!

I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit.

I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.

As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums, so indeed did I break into the business at the age of four as a singer.

I went to my agent and told them, 'I want to be on another Disney show.'

I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.

I consider myself to be more real-sized than most of the actresses in California and in show business. They're very small. They're like miniature people.

The thing about TV is it's a meritocracy. I love that aspect of it - and I've had shows that have gone on the air and been canceled. I've seen the good and the bad of it.

Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.

I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gather behind you and help you to succeed in any way possible.

All I ever cared about was actors - toughest job in this business.

I think it's always hard to find great roles, no matter what age you are. So I always say to people, 'You have to remember that Hollywood is in the business of making movies that they can sell tickets to; they're not in the business of finding great roles for actors.'

I'm glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out again now, maybe things would happen for me, but it certainly would not be on a variety show with 28 musicians, 12 dancers, two major guest stars, 50 costumes a week by Bob Mackie. The networks just wouldn't spend the money today.

I really always felt that I was going to be an actress. I had a lot of confidence in the fact that I would do well from a very early age. I didn't know how tough the business is.

When you come from a family of actors, people in show business, they really know to celebrate good news and to celebrate it hard because it's not every day that you get it.

I've sold shows based on my standup twice to CBS, but they've never gone past the script stage. TV is very competitive.

I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer.