Norm MacDonald Quotes

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

I love the challenge of show business. It keeps me on my toes.

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

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.

Once I started doing stand-up, everything fell into place. That was when I started acting more; I felt like I'd found my place in the business.

It's a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that's what it takes to be in show business.

To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face.

I have been in the business long enough to know what an intense amount of work it takes to operate a theater company.

I think the hardest thing about being an actor is between jobs when you don't know and wondering if you'll ever work again. It's kind of a crazy business.

You can work and scratch out a living in the theatre, but, if you want to make money, you've got to hit the road. You've got to play big houses of 2, 3 thousand seaters with your name above the bill, do popular fare and reach out to the audience such as it is.

So the English approach to show business and their work is more - and this is a big generalization, I hasten to say - but it's more, they work on it as a craft job.

There can always be an 'Idol' without anybody. I believe that Seacrest is probably the best host in the business.

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along.

After I got my first laugh on stage, I was hooked.

Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.

For my first gig, I got $75. I could make money being funny, so I pursued it as a career and have turned it into a lucrative business.

I'm in a business that invites narcissism, self-involvement, and egos being blown out of proportion.

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

I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.

You don't need tons of money to create art. You do need tons of money to be a part of show business. They are two different things.

I'd love to do situation comedy - it's the best job in show business.

It takes many years to be a great comedian.

I'm in the acting business. That's the ego business.