Gregory Porter Quotes

Show business is - you're there by somebody's fluke. And as long as somebody likes you, and the show is going well, you're fine. I'd do anything. There's so much I want to do.

My ultimate goal is to really be a huge music artist to the point where one day people forget that I was on a reality show.

Of course this is Vegas and it is the melting pot for all over the world, but people from all over the world know Donny and Marie. It is amazing. I have been in the business a long time to realize careers can be fleeting. Five years is a long career nowadays for some people, and here we are still going strong after 40 years.

The business of being a popular entertainer in England is just too hard.

I knew what show business was, which was why I didn't want in on that action. I saw what happens! You get it, and then you lose it.

Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.

The rock biz is the low end of the creative world. Faces come and go so fast.

Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?

A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next.

For any band that ends up becoming really big, yeah, hard work has something to do with it, but a lot of it is just pure luck.

Anybody who says they don't want to be seen on a show which has millions of people watching it at one time when they're in the business of selling records is a bit silly.

I'm in the entertainment business, where you're only as good as your last show.

To be employed in the entertainment industry is a miracle.

I got offered a bunch of reality show stuff, but I didn't want to be known for that, so I turned it all down.

Since I remember still very clearly what it was like not being popular or in a successful band, I know that things go up and down, and you cannot expect this to be on the same trajectory forever. It won't be. Because even if you get to be the biggest band in the world, it's gonna change.

Of course I would love to have another track as big as 'Animals,' but 'Animals' became big also because of luck, the timing, and hype.

I know all too well what it takes to have a hit: A little bit of luck, a little bit of work, a little bit of talent.

Both the industries, be it Bollywood or music, have been really kind to me.

Being an actor is like winning the lottery. It's not really about your talent, it's right time, right place, right face.

It's a chain of accidents. When you step into Hollywood, you wind yourself into thousands of chains of accidents. If all of the thousands happen to come out exactly right-and the chance of that figures out to be one in eight million-then you'll be a star.

Show biz! It's definitely not for sissies.

The coolest thing for me is that I've been blessed with a nice following. The people that come to see me are fans, and that happens in Vegas, too.

Touring can get really hard if you're not hitting some fashionable zeitgeist.

I won because I was the people's favorite dancer, and that's what I work with these Idols on. There have been 1,000 singers before you that are as good or better than you, but you're not trying to be the best singer ever. You're trying to be the people's favorite singer.

Show business people aren't vapid.