In 40-odd years in show business, some years I could do no wrong, and some years I could do nothing right. Show business. I owe it everything - it owes me nothing.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.
If I lose show business - I'll really be an orphan!
Show business is my life.
I built a huge profitable business with no debt.
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!
I owe 90 per cent of my life to people because I am a public figure, but 10 per cent is private to me. And I am not saying it in a defensive way. I feel my life has been made into a TV serial.
No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement.
Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person.
People say I owe a lot to television. The fact is I was a star long before television. What TV made me is unemployed.
In show business, if you make a mistake, you can do it over again.