Words matter. These are the best Bruce Forsyth Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
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.
Ambition can take the place of everything – even sex.
If I couldn’t move, I don’t know what I would do. That would be terrifying for me; I don’t know how I’d cope with that.
I can tell by the way somebody walks if they can dance or not. Just by the rhythm.
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.
I am not doddery… doddery I am not!
They do say, the smaller the feet, the better the dancer.
I hate the term ‘arm candy.’ But, look, a woman’s figure is a beautiful thing, and if she has shapely legs, then she should show them off, because men love to see that. Not just heterosexual men – gay men like to see a woman in her beauty and the shape of her.
A round of golf is the ideal antidote to stress.
I’ve always been a family entertainer. Every show I have done has been suitable for any age – parents never need to worry that, if they pop out of the room, I’ll say anything untoward.
I have no plans to rock myself to sleep in my bath chair yet.
It may be an old cliche, but I think true love will last; it has no end. But finding the right person is a very difficult thing.
When I married Wilnelia, one of the first things I wanted to know about Puerto Rico was the quality of the golf courses.
People think I am the crazy person on stage, but I know how to relax.
All kids love to get dirty, but if I wandered into the garage, my father would say: ‘Son, you’re not going to have filthy hands like mine. You’re going into show business.’
When a performer doesn’t get nervous, that is when you have to give up.
People think I rush around all day long like a raving lunatic. I’m much more relaxed than that.
In the old days, variety turns like me learned how to cope with failure – we all had nights when we ‘died’ on stage – but today’s youngsters simply don’t have that experience. For them, it really is instant make or break time – hence, all the tears and, hence, all the potential emotional damage.
When I was in the business as a young performer, it was a recognised fact that when you got to 60 you were out, because there’d be a new crop of comics coming up all the time, every 10 years or so.
I love getting on You Tube to look at the old comics. I am in my element seeing guys like Jack Benny and Phil Silvers give interviews.
That Mick Jagger, I feel sorry for him. After all these years he still can’t get no satisfaction.
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.
Television is great but for me, as a performer, nothing compares to a live theatre show.
Just doing any kind of work – even an interview for breakfast television – makes me feel happy.
