Billy Eckstine Quotes

When you're a kid, you read about this glamorous acting world, but actually it's really unglamorous.

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

I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.

My impression was, 'This Hollywood thing doesn't seem too hard.'

I work in show business - there's nothing that shocks me anymore!

My parents made certain I had no illusions about acting. To them, it was always just a job.

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 just stepped off the show biz bus and changed gears.

I always wanted to be an actress. I always wanted to be a movie star.

Being a star is an agent's dream, not an actor's.

You have to be a little unreal to be in this business.

People who want to be a star get their teeth capped. People who want to be an actor get to work.

I'm always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!

I always knew I'd be an actor. I always knew I'd at least be on a big screen somewhere.

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

In show business, you had levels. I was at the top of the TV end of it.

I'm very leery of show business, having been in Los Angeles for the last 10 years. Buzz is a dangerous thing that I've heard applied to a lot of people that I've since not heard of again.

I'm an actress, and that's why I'm still here. Anybody who has the illusion that you can have a career as long as I have and be a star is kidding themselves.

I've always said it ain't 'Show Friends.' It's 'Show Business.'

My family aren't performers. They're just normal people. They don't understand this entertainment world. They just think it's mental. They have no idea what I'm doing in America.

Hollywood is a fast-paced, competitive world.

I never wanted to be an actor. I never want to be an actor. I want to be a movie star. The whole idea of having to act is too gruesome. It's too ambitious for me.

I believe I made it in show business.

Hollywood is a very hard place to be in. It really is.

I wanted to be an actor from a young age, but actually becoming one and seen the ugly side of the world does feel different and sometimes unwelcome. There are shallow, vapid, untalented people zombieing the streets of Hollywood, adding decadence and immorality to an already extravagant business.