Bruce Forsyth Quotes
Although I'm predominantly known for game-shows, I do prefer to be known as a performer.
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Just doing any kind of work - even an interview for breakfast television - makes me feel happy.
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Probably more than anybody else, I loved Nat 'King' Cole as a performer - not only his singing but his piano playing. Whenever he had a new record come out, I'd get it and try to learn how he was playing. And he was one of the nicest people I'd ever met.
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My biggest regret is that my mother didn't see me walk on to that London Palladium stage, being the star she always wanted me to be. But I always say that when she reached Heaven, she had a word with a few agents.
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I hate the term 'arm candy.' But, look, a woman's figure is a beautiful thing, and if she has shapely legs, then she should show them off, because men love to see that. Not just heterosexual men - gay men like to see a woman in her beauty and the shape of her.
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It gets harder every day to get out of bed. I don't feel like it loads of the time. It is only my exercise routine which wakes me up.
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That Mick Jagger, I feel sorry for him. After all these years he still can't get no satisfaction.
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Ambition can take the place of everything - even sex.
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I read a lot when I'm away. I love courtroom dramas and I'm always looking for new authors.
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It's important for a dancer to wear very tight underpants. I used to feel a bit exposed if I wasn't being held up in the right place.
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Puerto Rico is one of those places you can be as quiet or as crazy as you want, because there's so much nightlife. I have to take the craziness carefully.
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My holidays are very important. Mind you, I take a very long one every year.
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There are enough tears in any child's life; we certainly don't need to add to them in the name of entertainment.
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I do lead a careful diet, I don't overeat, I have fruit and vegetables every day and I drink a lot of water. And my darling wife keeps me so young it is ridiculous. Being with her is an inspiration as well.
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No one - apart from my agent, perhaps - should leave one of my shows in tears.
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It's frightening, the way life speeds up. When you're at school, time can't go fast enough.
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People think I rush around all day long like a raving lunatic. I'm much more relaxed than that.
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It may be an old cliche, but I think true love will last; it has no end. But finding the right person is a very difficult thing.
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If I go out one night, I must stay in the next. It's the same with my golf. If I play one day, I don't play the next. I try to pace myself.
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I don't want to grow old gracefully. I want to put up a bit of a fight.
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When I was a child, life felt so slow because all I wanted to do was get into show business. Each day seemed like a year, but when you get older, years pass like minutes. I wish there was a tape recorder where we could just slow our lives down.
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It's the combination of marrying a beautiful woman three decades younger and my iPad that keeps me young.
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My father earned every penny he had, and I would have loved to have bought him a Rolls-Royce because his whole life was cars. Sadly, he didn't live to see the day when I could have done that for him, which still hurts.
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On stage, I think I'm 35. Working takes over my whole body and I become a younger man - that's why I won't stop.
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Although I'm predominantly known for game-shows, I do prefer to be known as a performer.