Bruce Vilanch Quotes
Musicals have clearly gotten more physical. You never saw Ethel Merman doing step aerobics.
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I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.
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Unless you have a long-running series, most actors just go job to job if you're lucky to keep working. You just do a movie or a play or a TV thing, and it's over at some point.
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It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.
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So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
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You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.
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I take certain steps to make sure I'm relevant artistically. I always have new music and a reason to be on the road. I'm not just playing 'Get By' over and over. I have 12 albums.
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Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.
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If there is a reason I'm able to make unsympathetic characters human, it's because it's my desire to find what drives the unsympathetic behavior. Almost always at the bottom of it is some deep insecurity. Putting your finger on what each individual's particular insecurity is goes a long way to fleshing that person out.
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When people have lost their jobs or are afraid of losing their jobs in the future, they lash out. They want others to know about their fears, their pain.
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If I am in London I like a quick get away to The Olde Bell in Hurley... It's nearby and no stress - great food and beautiful walks.
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No matter who you are, the grass is never greener on the other side.
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I play the game as honestly as I can. If the referee gives a penalty there is nothing you can do.
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But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money and organizing and giving sound bites.
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I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.
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My mother used to make the most amazing yogurt.
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It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
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Being from Oakland, you see a lot of thing. You see friends turn on friends all the time. You see family turn on family.
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Depending on what happens with my directing career, I don't think I'll stop writing, even if I crash and burn in movies and TV. I'll go back to plays. Even if I crash and burn there, I'll write a novel. That's the great thing about writing is that you don't have to wait for people to give you permission to do it.
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I did love horror films from the '70s and '80s. That was my sweet spot.
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The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.
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Musicals have clearly gotten more physical. You never saw Ethel Merman doing step aerobics.
