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

• There's a big thing right now with people using stand-up as a scapegoat. People think comedians have the power to change someone in an hour. If we had that ability, the art would not be legal. It would too dangerous.

  

  Bill Burr

• Young children especially are receiving so much of the world through their ears and their eyes, particularly if they're pre-literate. So engaging them with sound, particularly sound that stirs them emotionally because of the sequence of notes, will make them pay attention.

  

  Emma Walton Hamilton
  • Children
  • Eyes
  • Sound

• I love cable, but not because you can show boobies and say the F-word. I love it because you have more time to think. That's the blessing of it.

  

  Vince Gilligan
  • Time
  • Think
  • Word

• I wish I had a really cool, esoteric answer, but what the process is to me is going onstage night after night after night after night until I get a new hour. And then once that hour is solidified and recorded, I move on.

  

  Patton Oswalt
  • Night
  • Wish
  • Cool

• I grew up on the South Side of Chicago, north Beverly. It was cool, everybody's cool on the block.

  

  Craig Robinson
  • Up
  • Cool
  • Chicago

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

  

  Bruce Forsyth