Bruce Forsyth
British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter
Lived from: 1928 - 2017
Category: Music | Movie | Media Country: 
United Kingdom
Born: 22 february 1928 Died: 18 august 2017
Quotes 21 till 40 of 46.
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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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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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It's sad when you see most of your friends in the business gone, like Tommy Cooper, Frankie Howard, Eric Morecambe, Roy Castle, Les Dawson. They were very dear to me. You no longer have the chance to bump into them at a celebrity do.
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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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Just doing any kind of work - even an interview for breakfast television - makes me feel happy.
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Little did I know that there's nothing more competitive in the world than a professional ballroom dancer. They are as competitive as Olympic athletes.
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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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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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My holidays are very important. Mind you, I take a very long one every year.
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No one - apart from my agent, perhaps - should leave one of my shows in tears.
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Not working is bad for you. It is my drug, it gives me a high; most performers will tell you that. And there is nothing like the high that an audience gives you.
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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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People think I rush around all day long like a raving lunatic. I'm much more relaxed than that.
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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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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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Some people hate the sight of me as soon as they see me on television. They loathe the look of me, and I accept that from the days of variety. I would walk on and some people would open a newspaper and think, 'He's first on, so he can't be any good.' I accept that.
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Television is great but for me, as a performer, nothing compares to a live theatre show.
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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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The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about.
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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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