Jill Scott Quotes

Success in show business depends on your ability to make and keep friends.

Make sure you meet the right people, people who know that industry and are willing to help you. Do your homework - read books about the industry, talk to people. If you don't know something, ask.

I'm lucky that a lot of my friends are in the entertainment industry.

A lot of show business, as you know, is about all the contacts you make and who you know.

When you're working in the industry, and you're working with people who are well known and are so regarded, you do just pick up on things. Talking to people and hearing their stories, you learn a lot.

I've got plenty of contacts in Hollywood.

I don't know how people get into show business if their family's not in it.

One of the things I've learned - before I would go on a show, I was like, "Oh God, I hate that show" or "That show is gonna get canceled." But now after being full-time on a show, you see how difficult it is and how much work goes into it and how so many decisions are based on finances or people's schedules or talent or location issues. It's a miracle that anything gets made.

Every actor wants to direct and produce, but I made a conscious decision when I was in college to understand the 'business' of 'show business.'

You learn that Hollywood has its own rules, sometimes. And it's tricky, and sometimes you can't see what's coming around the corner.

I was disillusioned by Hollywood at the time, but now I've come to accept that's just the way things are: it's called show business, not show art.

I've been very lucky because I've always had movies to do. So if I got bored between shows a movie would turn up.

I consider myself one of the luckiest people in the history of show business.

I'd rather be a flop at show business than to be a success at something I didn't like.

Show business pays you a lot of money, because eventually you’re gonna get screwed.

Don [ Handfield] was actually one of the first guys I met in town back in '94. He was an actor and a writer and all this stuff.

In my coming-of-age time, there was no internet, no social networking, nothing. It was just show after show, hoping one day somebody would notice you.

Crewing and being on film sets is kind of like being in the carnival, with carnie folks.

There's a beauty of show business. It's the only business you can have a career in when you're dead.

You can take Hollywood for granted like I did, or you can dismiss it with the contempt we reserve for what we don't understand. It can be understood too, but only dimly and in flashes. Not half a dozen men have ever been able to keep the whole equation of pictures in their heads.

For the most part, comedy is the only fair part of show business.

When you're in show business no matter what you're doing it's an insecure business.

In show business, more showgirls are kept than promises.

It's great to tell people you have your own show, but that's where the fun stops.

When I did the sitcom I was too naive. I thought, Well, they know what they're talking about, let's do that.