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I've had 79 to 80 years of show business. I started when I was 5 with a man called Tom Mix. I didn't have time to go to school because I was in silent movies, I was in radio, I was in burlesque, I worked with the circus. I'm all show business!

— George Sidney

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor.

— Christopher Walken

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.

— Sally Field

I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don't exist. I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.

— Al Lewis

I was a musician for years before I started doing this stuff. Show business was the only thing I ever considered.

— Miguel Ferrer

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.

— Vicki Lawrence

I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it's hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film.

— David Duchovny

✗Opposing Perspectives

I was always in show business but in many ways was not really of show business. I didn't move in show business circles, particularly, still don't do it.

— Dick Van Dyke

Even though I was in close proximity to everything, it never really dawned on me to pursue a career in show business.

— Vicki Lawrence

When I graduated from college I thought I was over with show business and was pursuing other things.

— Anna Chlumsky

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

— Kenny Baker