Brent Spiner Quotes

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

Hollywood is a fast-paced, competitive world.

To be employed in the entertainment industry is a miracle.

Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.

But this is called show business, not show family.

My father was so in love with showbiz, all the different aspects - what we're doing here, making the movies, everything about it.

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

Show business got really tainted for me.

Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.

I didn't plan on going into show business. Show business picked me. And it's been fun. One of the best things about being in show business is people think they know me, and they feel like they grew up with me.

I'm lucky that a lot of my friends are in the entertainment industry.

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

The entertainment industry is as it always has been. It's a rough bunch of people and a rough industry.

Hollywood is not easy.

I grew up thinking of show business as a business.

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.

When one deals with stars, he is dealing with intelligent people. If they weren't intelligent, they wouldn't have arrived at the star pinnacle.

I believe I made it in show business.

I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I didn't think of it as being tough and things like that.

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

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

The theatre show-biz types don't change much, no matter what era we're in. The question of how you balance being in show business with your personal life isn't very different.

I learned a long time ago, if you want to keep your friends in show business, don't get famous. Because as soon as you get famous, a lot of the people you used to know, who didn't, become incredibly bitter and jealous. It's part of the territory.

I moved to L.A., and I lived in the Oakland Apartments, which is this notorious hub for actor children and their stage moms. For the first few years that I lived there, Hilary Duff and Frankie Muniz frequented the apartments. I was much younger than them at the time.

Well, there's different shades of Hollywood, sure. I mean, I'm working in this business but I'm not Hollywood.