Bruce Forsyth Quotes

I'm not even really a joke-teller. I can do ad-lib and banter, but I don't do jokes.

Bruce Forsyth

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• I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Truth
  • History
  • Wish

• I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Good
  • Language
  • Cutting

• Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • World
  • Music
  • Art

• I believe the Obama administration, from the president on down, has taken a very weak position regarding granting Palestine statehood at the United Nations.

  

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
  • Believe
  • Taken
  • Down

• Radical Islam, it has grown into a global jihad.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Islam
  • Radical
  • Global

• The Russians often took advantage of Lend-Lease.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Often
  • Russians
  • Took

• Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Question

• Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale.

  

  Tan Le
  • Understanding
  • Brain
  • Research

• Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Man
  • Loved
  • Gentleman

• When I'm working, I have a hard time switching off, and when I'm not working, I have a hard time thinking of ever wanting to work again.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Time
  • Work
  • Thinking

• I do love the clothes on 'Mad Men' because my character has been so elegant and I would never have had access to these clothes. I think Janie Bryant is a costume designing genius. They'll call and tell me, 'It will only take an hour,' and I'm like, 'I will try on the whole truck!'

  

  Cara Buono
  • Character
  • Like
  • Genius

• The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Soul
  • Human
  • Curious

• Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Time
  • Day
  • Week

• There are certain times you realize you've got too much money. One was when I started getting bills from the Koi hotel. When I was remodeling the Koi pond, the Koi had to go to the Koi hotel. They ended up staying there for 13 months and I never asked what the bill was.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Up
  • Money
  • Never

• I like when people don't know what to expect.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Know
  • Like

• Senator Smoot is an institute Not to be bribed with pelf; He guards our homes from erotic tomes By reading them all himself.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Reading

• I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.

  

  Al Gore
  • Up
  • Believe

• What you HABITUALLY THINK largely determines what you will ultimately become.

  

  Bruce Lee

• No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society.

  

  John Rawls
  • Society

• I felt like if I could get the epiphany out of the way in my drafting process, through my eighth or tenth draft, then that can just be part of how I've assembled the character, and then we can move on and move forward with it. In general, I don't ever want to feel smarter than my characters, because I just feel like that's not a great way to write a story.

  

  Molly Antopol
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Moving

• This meeting was like many of the meetings that I would go to over the course of two years. The only way I can describe it is that, well, the president is like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people. There is no discernible connection.

  

  Paul O'Neill
  • President
  • Connection
  • Blind

• On a normal day-to-day basis, I'm makeup free, hair in a bun, and I just go.

  

  Caroline Wozniacki
  • Free
  • Hair
  • Makeup

• I'm not even really a joke-teller. I can do ad-lib and banter, but I don't do jokes.

  

  Bruce Forsyth