Frankie Boyle Quotes

It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.

But this is called show business, not show family.

I do a lot of Vegas work and work with the comedians.

Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for me was acting.

I'm oddly not competitive. What I love about show business is there is a home for everyone.

It's important in show business to have friends who understand the cut and thrust of everyday working life and the constant rejection.

I'm a very competitive person, and I always competed with myself. Every year, I'd take six weeks with my band, crew and choreographer to put a new show together. We'd spend eight hours per day, seven days per week putting a show together to beat the last year's show.

Acting is a freelance career... you never stop having to prove yourself and fight for work.

I don't like other actors much. The industry tends to attract insecure, needy people.

The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.

Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.

There is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they where working in show business.

I love actors, and I love the casting process. It's funny, like, some writers don't like actors because, I think, they are the faces of the show, and so you feel sort of secondary, but I love actors because they elevate the material; they make it better.

For me, I don't have a publicist. I don't want to talk about my personal life. I don't want to talk about my process. I don't want to be a model and do fashion shoots. It's nice to be an entertainer, but I'm a reluctant celebrity.

Competitions are for horses, not artists.

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

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

The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch.

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

I rarely meet other young actors.

There's a degree of narcissism involved in anything in show business. I mean, you can't do it without a healthy ego. Why would you want anybody to listen to you?

Very early on, when I started doing these plays and live shows, I would travel from city to city, and there were a million shows out there... so I wanted to step out among it, and I started putting my name above the title.

I don't think I would ever write and star in a show again.

People who want to do stand-up from the start - I mean that's an extremely self-centred thing to want, isn't it?