Kenny Leon Quotes

In L.A. everyone is an actor. In Texas, everyone's a musician.

Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977.

There's something terribly solitary about working in movies and television, and in New York, so much of the theater is showcasing.

None of my family had anything to do with show business, my life was totally foreign to them.

I have been working professionally in the entertainment industry since I was six.

My dad's a lighting director. Growing up in Hollywood, I was around the entertainment industry all the time. I knew I'd end up in show business in some capacity, eventually.

When I was 23, I went to work for Jack Nicholson reading scripts. Later, I was married to a production designer named Richard Sylbert. So I lived in Los Angeles for ten years.

I wish my friends at William Morris Endeavor all the best.

My father was so in love with showbiz, all the different aspects - what we're doing here, making the movies, everything about it.

I grew up in an entertainment family, and so I saw how susceptible you are to the ups and downs of this business.

Anyone that has a music career and an acting career I think is pretty fantastic.

I enjoy being part of the entertainment industry, although I'm the laziest person that I've met yet in this business.

Even though I was in close proximity to everything, it never really dawned on me to pursue a career in show business.

I went to Broadway and I've been doing some fun guest spots with 'Entourage' and 'Glee' and I'm ready to have my own show.

Do you want to be an actor, or do you want to be a celebrity? I made that decision when I went to Juilliard. I wanted to be an actor. So, if I get the opportunity to be an actor and do some cool, fun and interesting projects, I'm going to do that.

You can be on top of everything, and the next minute, you're going to be on the bottom.

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

If you can find it in you to love how stupid the entertainment industry is, you can have a great career.

For the past 32 years, I've done nothing outside the entertainment business. I've had some real highs and some real lows, but I love the work so much that I never once thought of quitting.

Basically, my goal in life is to be David Hyde Pierce - go to Hollywood, make some money, come back and just win some Tony Awards.

Working in Hollywood can be tumultuous, with incredible highs and lows and you need to be grounded.

I think people need entertaining, and they like being entertained. That's all I do. I don't do anything important; I just work in entertainment.

I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.

There are so many high-highs and there are so many low-lows in this game.

In the entertainment industry, especially, is a total different environment then working in a corporate setting.