Betty White Quotes

Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.

I considered going into business or becoming a lawyer - not for the money, but for the thrill of problem-solving.

I thought that making movies was drab. I'd lived through that. And I didn't want to use my parents, ever... They didn't want to push me into this business.

I was a weirdo to want to be in show business. Most kids wanted to be teachers or nurses.

I considered a lot of different jobs as a kid. I thought about becoming a priest or a lawyer. My father had a big linen-supply business and I considered working for him. What dawned on me was: 'If I'm an actor, I get to do the fun parts of every job!' Without having to go to four years of law school.

Is it hard to make a living in show business? Yeah.

I could've always worked shows, clubs, Las Vegas and Atlantic City, but I was successful in business ventures, and things weren't happening in show business, so I said, 'Let me see what I can do.'

I always wanted to be a zookeeper when I was growing up, and I've wound up a zookeeper! I've been working with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years! I'm the luckiest old broad on two feet because my life is divided absolutely in half - half animals and half show business. You can't ask for better than two things you love the most.

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.'

I love every aspect of show business and that includes both the show part of it and the business part of it.

I'm in love with everything about show business. The only thing that ever came easy to me in life has been acting.

It's the most unglamourous glamour business in the world.

Oddly enough, Dame Edna is not interested in show business. Her friends in Los Angeles are mostly in the world of petroleum. She used to have some acting friends. Sadly, Joan Rivers has passed on. Larry Hagman was a close friend. A number of others.

I didn't really start performing until high school. My whole family is actually in the business, and started in the business in Chicago, so I was going to shows when I was a teeny-tiny kid, but I didn't really start performing until high school.

People who go into show business are screwed up.

I'm in this business, man, and I honestly don't know anything about show business at all. I don't know how it works.

Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.

I'd always enjoyed acting, but modeling was so time-consuming - and lucrative - that I didn't pursue it.

I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer, and then I got a job as an actor.

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.

You have to be a star to be in this business.

Please don't ask which I enjoy more - acting or hosting - because I love them equally.

I don't think I ever dreamt of going into business. No one in my family was in business.

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be in show business!

In my heart and soul, I always knew that I wanted to be in show business.