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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What is needed by him who would succeed in the highest degree possible is careful planning. He is to accumulate reserved power, that he may be equal to all emergencies.
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I think Utahns - and I won't speak for all Utahns - but my sense is that they have real issues with Donald Trump's lack of decency, with his bigotry, the way he's divided this country. That's not the Utahn way. I think they have issues with his attacks on religious minorities.
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The only thing in the world worse than being Oscar Wilde is not being Oscar Wilde.
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I'm always the one with the activist friends. I've been an activist very little.
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This I say, because God showed me somewhat of his truth, in order that I might know what man is without him; that is, when the soul is found in mortal sin, at that time, it is so monstrous and horrible to behold, that it is impossible to imagine anything equally so.
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Musicals have clearly gotten more physical. You never saw Ethel Merman doing step aerobics.
