Kirstie Alley Quotes

Luckily, I have great agents who are sending me out for great stuff.

Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.

As I got older, I had a bunch of friends that were various teen stars. I've always known people in the spotlight and people who just grew up in L.A. and had nothing to do with the industry. It's not a glamorous thing to me. It's just a different type of business.

Now I have an agent, a manager, a lawyer, a publicist, all the king's horses and all the king's men.

I don't have any friends who are actors through my dad.

I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theatre, I didn't even know there was a show business!

But I grew up in a place where no one knew anyone in the entertainment business, I never knew it was an actual career. The closest I ever got to movies was going to watch them, and I thought that's the way it would be, so I never considered working in this business.

I think in a weird way that the entertainment industry is strangely more brutally honest than any other.

People in England talk about stupid Hollywood idiots, but the industry attracts some of the cleverest people in the world.

Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!

Hollywood is a peculiar beast - people in Hollywood are nuts.

The studio scene in California is sort of ridiculous anyway.

You have got to have an agent. It's a business. But I think there is a way to be artful and commercial at the same time.

The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.

The necessity for 'professionals' in the entertainment industry is being constantly challenged.

If you can find it in you to love how stupid the entertainment industry is, you can have a great career.

I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.

I am one of the graduates of the William Morris famous, famous mail room from the '60s.

It doesn't mean I'm not interested in Hollywood. I like the way it operates; I like the people who are involved and the sense of possibility. But if I ever get back in, it's not going to be as an actress.

Hollywood is always about Hollywood.

I don't have an agent - I have the William Morris Agency.

I told my parents I wanted an agent, and they decided to let me have a go at it. Then I started working right away. I was 12.

I wouldn't have been interested in making a show just about Hollywood, 'cause I find Hollywood boring. I find people and families very interesting.

I was obsessed with award shows and made charts and graphs and stuff when I was 7 years old. I found the entertainment business hilarious, ridiculous, and alluring - and my parents supported it, for better or worse.

I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.