Industry Quotes

• One of the things that's funniest about the entertainment industry and comedy is that people go 'Oh, you're great, but I don't know what to do with you.' The great thing about the Internet is that nobody has to figure out what to do with you. You can figure out what to do with you, and you can say, 'I made this thing, and I'm going to put it out, and now if people want to come see me and buy things from me they can.'

  

  Eugene Mirman
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Internet

• The high-tech industry needs the immigration of highly qualified labor, from India, from China, from everywhere.

  

  Nicholas Bloom
  • Industry
  • Labor
  • High-Tech

• They all have significant strengths, all have significant financial wherewithal. Every one has support within the industry and outside the industry. The strengths of the groups make this a very difficult decision.

  

  Bob DuPuy
  • Support
  • Decision
  • Significant

• In the industry, I am judged by what I wear. If I want to be taken seriously, I have to hire a team of stylists. It's an occupational hazard. But it's not as though I am any less of a feminist.

  

  Swara Bhaskar
  • Team
  • Feminist
  • Judged

• Hollywood is a cottage industry involving a very small number of people, and around the edges are enormous numbers of people trying to get into it and work.

  

  Peter Stone
  • People
  • Hollywood
  • Industry

• The problem with the British film industry is the nervousness and insecurity about - and genuflection toward - Los Angeles.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Problem
  • Film
  • Insecurity

• Apart from one or two difficult cases, people have accepted it and got on with it. Industry is very comfortable.

  

  Elliot Morley
  • Industry
  • Cases
  • Accepted

• 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 LA and had nothing to do with the industry.

  

  Troian Bellisario
  • People
  • Stars
  • Bunch

• I'm not that girl who's really concerned with it. I've dated a bit and it's just draining to me. If it's not going to happen natural, obviously it's going to be someone in the industry because that's the only time people ever really see me.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • People
  • Time
  • Girl

• I grew up in the industry, so this whole entertainment thing is my world. If I had to leave it, maybe I'd be a race-car driver. That'd be awesome.

  

  Mitchel Musso
  • World
  • Industry
  • Grew Up

• My experience and what I do in snowboarding is really quite independent of the industry and the more independent it is, the more pure and better I feel about snowboarding.

  

  Craig Kelly
  • Feels
  • Independent
  • Pure

• I've been in the entertainment industry since I was six-years-old ... As Charles Dickens says, 'It's been the best of times, the worst of times.' But I would not change my career ... While some have made deliberate attempts to hurt me, I take it in stride because I have a loving family, a strong faith and wonderful friends and fans who have, and continue, to support me.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Industry
  • Entertainment
  • Charles Dickens

• When I first got into the entertainment industry, I would always watch Rihanna and all those people, so I was like, 'Ooh, I have to be this.' So my mom was like, 'Just be yourself.'

  

  Willow Smith
  • Firsts
  • Industry
  • Watches

• If the milk industry can make their product seem sexy and increase consumer demand, there must be hope for music.

  

  Gary Arnold
  • Business
  • Sexy
  • Products

• When you negotiate contracts, you have the ability to tell them, 'We want you to hire an independent monitor for our wagering system, and we want in our contract the right to receive that information from the monitor.' The pari-mutuel industry is the only one I know of that doesn't require an independent monitor.

  

  Ed Martin
  • Independent
  • Information
  • Contracts

• It's certainly a lot more difficult to get a project made if you're talking about something progressive. That's just the nature of the industry.

  

  Tim Robbins
  • Difficult
  • Made
  • Projects

• The industry does have some influence on who gets other awards. With the Mercury Prize, they don't. Jon comes from the business, but his heart is still very much in the music. Currently, we have about 12 major names that have said they want to be a part of MUDDA.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Influence
  • Industry
  • Awards

• People ask me, "What is it like?" with a negative tone. But for me, I'm surrounded by the most talented and passionate people in the industry.

  

  Anita Briem
  • People
  • Industry
  • Talented

• Everything's so different, moving so fast. People consume things at such a crazy rate like it's here today gone tomorrow onto the next thing. It’s such a competitive industry nowadays. There’s such an oversaturation of so many bands.

  

  Alisa Xayalith
  • Moving
  • Industry
  • Competitive

• Time, and Industry, produce everyday new knowledge.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Time
  • Knowledge
  • Industry

• I've been through the music industry and with the Internet the music industry is not what it used to be.

  

  Jeff Gutt Stone Temple Pilots
  • Music
  • Internet
  • Industry

• It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry.

  

  Cesar Romero
  • Family
  • New
  • Gone

• In some industry markets, high quality can be tied to making more money, but I am sure by now all of us know the computer industry is not like that.

  

  Theo de Raadt
  • Money
  • Quality
  • Computer

• If we wait for the entertainment industry to change its fundamental values, we may be waiting a long time. But we don't have to wait another day to scale back our own private consumption of television.

  

  Michael Medved
  • Waiting
  • Television
  • Entertainment

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