Bruce Vilanch Quotes

We're shaking up a format, which I think is always a good thing. The thing about [2011 Oscar hosts] James [Franco] and Anne [Hathaway] is, they've both hosted Saturday Night Live, and they both did a good job at it. So they are accustomed to working with short rehearsal time, and live, lots of pressure, rewrites, things like that. They can make quick changes, which is very advantageous, and they're skilled comedians.

Bruce Vilanch

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• My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • She
  • Mother
  • Mom

• Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Yourself
  • Find
  • Easy

• My boy and I move. We have this game where if we dress in a particular item of clothing, we have to do a different movement. A hat means 20 jumps - that sort of thing. When I put a scarf on, my son has to drop down and do push-ups, immediately. He thinks it's really funny.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Different
  • Game
  • Funny

• Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

  

  Pat Barker
  • World
  • War
  • First

• Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Poetry
  • Years
  • Living

• If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Yourself
  • Dying
  • Afraid

• Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Earth
  • Child
  • Spring

• A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Important
  • Poetry
  • Modern

• I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Time
  • Colors
  • Icon

• The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don't get scared, get ready to buy!

  

  Larry Williams
  • Time
  • Day
  • Down

• In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • World
  • Problem
  • Suffering

• I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Travel
  • Luxury
  • Cuddling

• Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Good
  • Think
  • Parent

• Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Opportunity
  • Dance
  • Floor

• Every single film I've done, it's about the character.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Done
  • Character
  • Single

• Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.

  

  Ian Hart
  • Work
  • Me
  • Unhappy

• I think when you're a TV presenter, you have to have a reason for doing it, and a lot of them have been around a long time and grafted for that. The reason why it works with me on 'The Xtra Factor' is because I was a contestant on it, and I have a relationship with the viewers at home.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Time
  • Long
  • Why

• I think I'm a people person. I get very attached to people. And I've become so attached to all the people on my show, the cast, the crew and the producers.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • People
  • Think
  • Person

• If you hear what people had to say about Abraham Lincoln or what they had to say about FDR, or what they had to say about Ronald Reagan when he first came in and was trying to change our approach to government, that elicited huge responses.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Trying
  • Government

• Well the planet I've got a chance to visit is Earth, and Earth's principal features are chaos and war. I think I'd be a fool to spend years here and never have a look.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Thinking
  • War
  • Earth

• I think what all actors share is that, somewhere down in your solar plexus, there's this fear that you're not going to be able to come up with the goods, that this is the one movie where you're going to look like a fool, and they should have cast someone else. And you feel ugly, and you've got three chins, and you've gained too much weight, and you're losing your hair, and there are so many better actors who could do this. But if you've got chops, what you realize is that everybody feels that way, so just show up and do the job.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Thinking
  • Fool
  • Ugly

• To be alive at all involves some risk.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Risk
  • Alive
  • Some

• I'm singing 'English Tea' from my new album 'Chaos and Creation in the Backyard.' I have a cup of tea in the morning, so it's something good to wake up to.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Up
  • Good
  • Morning

• We're shaking up a format, which I think is always a good thing. The thing about [2011 Oscar hosts] James [Franco] and Anne [Hathaway] is, they've both hosted Saturday Night Live, and they both did a good job at it. So they are accustomed to working with short rehearsal time, and live, lots of pressure, rewrites, things like that. They can make quick changes, which is very advantageous, and they're skilled comedians.

  

  Bruce Vilanch
  • Thinking
  • Night
  • Comedian