Bruce Vilanch Quotes

I've written about 15 screenplays and they all sold - they were all sold on pitches.

Bruce Vilanch

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• I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody – somewhere – was practicing more than me.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Know
  • Me
  • Wonder

• I know all the critics.

  

  Dana Hill
  • Know
  • Critics

• I have to make little movies. I have to sit and film.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Film
  • Movies
  • Little

• I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Sometimes
  • Angry
  • Perception

• I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Style
  • Smart
  • Humor

• 'Girl, Interrupted' is one of my favorite movies.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Girl
  • Movies
  • Favorite

• You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.

  

  Laura Lang
  • Life
  • Work
  • Important

• I know I had been successful in football. I had been successful in broadcasting. I didn't think that anything could touch me. I thought, I can beat anything.

  

  Pat Summerall
  • Me
  • Football
  • Thought

• A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Good
  • Black
  • Bird

• People tell me that my appearance in real life is better than on-screen. Perhaps people think I am exactly like the characters I play on TV.

  

  Kapil Sharma
  • Life
  • Real
  • Play

• I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Individual
  • Victims
  • Hypocrisy

• Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Always
  • Aim
  • Authenticity

• I always wanted to be on a sitcom.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Always
  • Wanted
  • Sitcom

• Everything I do, I'm sort of half in, half out.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Everything
  • Half
  • Out

• I suppose a certain degree of adulthood has entered my life. Aiming for Broadway, I can't think that way any more. Of course, Broadway will always be important. But it's not the focus of everything that you do. You know, I'm very happy I was born when I was, so I got there in time. When it was time to get there.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• Power calls to those who are hungry for power, and there are hungry idiots everywhere.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • Power

• She had a need to feel the thunder,To chase the lightning from the sky,To watch a storm with all its wonderWritten in her lover's eyes.She had to ride the heat of passionLike a comet burning bright,Rushing headlong in the windNow where only dreams have been,Burning both ends of the night.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Night
  • Eyes
  • Passion

• I wasn't naturally drawn to fashion when I was younger but with my work I'm so exposed to what's out there that I'm hoping my style has become a little more sophisticated.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Work
  • Fashion
  • Style

• As you go along, you literally collect places. I'm fed up with going to places; I shan't go to anymore.

  

  Bruce Chatwin
  • Up

• So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Experience
  • History
  • Myself

• I'm always just drawn to those roles that present one way and have many other things going on underneath. It's just more fun to play as an actor.

  

  Carrie Preston
  • Present
  • Roles
  • Other

• I've written about 15 screenplays and they all sold - they were all sold on pitches.

  

  Bruce Vilanch