Dick Cavett Quotes

Personally, I don't get that whole reality show thing. It was much smaller, and it's grown. It's like an epidemic. I'm still rather confused by it.

The business of being a popular entertainer in England is just too hard.

I'm in show business... I want to hang out with Janet Jackson, not Jesse Jackson.

There's a side to this industry that nurtures divas who can't write. It's a big business.

I'm just a guy who happens to work in public from time to time. I've built a reputation as an established comic, not as a celebrity - a celebrity is someone who is famous but doesn't do anything.

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

Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.

Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.

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.

Anybody who says they don't want to be seen on a show which has millions of people watching it at one time when they're in the business of selling records is a bit silly.

Entertainment, Hollywood, award shows - these are the things that really captivated me.

I was raised in Hollywood and knew, from as early as grammar school, classmates who were in the business.

It's changing a bit, but the thing in LA is everyone is either in the industry, or knows someone who is in the industry. So, they don't let on that they recognize you, that's what I've found out.

I'm like the Ben Affleck of crowd surfing.

I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.

Showbiz is just there to give people something to talk about.

The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.

I only think one person is really cool, and that's Kanye.

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.

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

It's so crazy in Hollywood.

But this is called show business, not show family.

I believe I made it in show business.

Every actor I know wants to be a pop star.

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