Synonyms for show business
show busi·ness

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1. entertainment industry, show business, show biznoun

   those involved in providing entertainment: radio and television and films and theater

   Synonyms:
   show biz, entertainment industry

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1. Frank Bruno:

   Boxing is just show business with blood.

2. Bill Cosby, Playboy Interview - May 1969:

   I really do plan to get out of show business within five years or so.

3. Janet Jackson:

   Love is limitless. And for someone like me, raised in show business where self-concern is always a priority, how fortunate I am now to be concerned, first and foremost, with the welfare of someone else, day after day and night after night, holding my baby in my arms, I am at peace. I feel bliss. In those moments, all is right with the world.

4. Robert Crane:

   My parents were the first parents on my block to get a divorce, [People] would look at us like, ‘Oh, those show business people.’ All my friends, their parents were dentists, attorneys and salespeople. And I’m part of the carny crowd. The showbiz people… It was embarrassing to deal with that. So I retreated during my senior year of high school.

5. David Fantle:

   Cagney said that show business and films were for him strictly ‘to put bread on the table,’ he was totally unaffected by the entertainment industry. There was no ego, no star complex… and it just worked.