Randee Heller Quotes

Well, we're in show business, and I have been making a living in this business a long time and inevitably it means taking what it is that you've done and hopefully you're showing it to a lot of people who like it.

Yes, I have a good sense of humor to sort of last a long time in show business, and I think to be able to find comedic value in who you are and the people that you work is always a good thing.

I've learned through experience that you can't ever predict what's going to happen with any show. When I signed on to 'Ugly Betty,' I just prayed that I wouldn't get fired after the pilot, and four years later, I was still doing it.

You and I and everybody in show business and the entertainment industry fly by the seat of our pants. We don't know quite what is going to happen.

I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.

I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.

I've been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act.

I looked at longevity in show business when I was about 13, and the people who seemed to have longevity were the ones who'd spent quite a bit of time learning about what they were doing before they made it.

Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?

I like the idea that cinema is a spectacle.

I guess show business is a lot like baseball: "Wait until next year!" You just never know. Some of the shittiest shows I've ever seen run forever, and some of the best things never get a chance.

It's also show business. It's not "show fun friends".

I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.

The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age.

I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as a radio announcer when I was 17 and never left the business, so that's literally 70 years.

Of course this is Vegas and it is the melting pot for all over the world, but people from all over the world know Donny and Marie. It is amazing. I have been in the business a long time to realize careers can be fleeting. Five years is a long career nowadays for some people, and here we are still going strong after 40 years.

I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades.

Shows are really strange. Sometimes you really don't know what to expect.

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.

Spontaneity is such an entertaining facet of show business.

I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great things one day and the next day, nothing.

Ben Vereen is going to be on the show with me, too.

There's no business like show business.

It's my show.

It's a lot of fun to be a part of films that you don't exactly know how they're going to turn out.