Bruce Forsyth Quotes
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A round of golf is the ideal antidote to stress.
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I don't do close-ups any more. I am better looking from the waist downwards.
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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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Nice to see you, to see you nice
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I read a lot when I'm away. I love courtroom dramas and I'm always looking for new authors.
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Lots of people come up to me and call me Sir Bruce now. Interviewers call me Sir with every question, but I never make a point of making people call me Sir. It doesn't matter to me, though; it was a great honour to be knighted. I'm very proud of it.
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Once you've experienced the warmth of an audience, the achievement of getting your first laugh, and entertaining them, singing or playing piano, it just keeps it all going.
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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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Although I'm predominantly known for game-shows, I do prefer to be known as a performer.
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I don't want to grow old gracefully. I want to put up a bit of a fight.
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Just doing any kind of work - even an interview for breakfast television - makes me feel happy.
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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.
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It gets harder every day to get out of bed. I don't feel like it loads of the time. It is only my exercise routine which wakes me up.
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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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I met my darling wife Wilnelia in 1980 when we were on the judging panel for the Miss World contest at the Royal Albert Hall. With two ex-wives and five daughters, I thought I wouldn't be involved with anyone for a long time - if ever. Winnie was so gorgeous, my jaw dropped - and it's a big jaw to drop.
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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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I am not doddery... doddery I am not!
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I can tell by the way somebody walks if they can dance or not. Just by the rhythm.
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I'm not even really a joke-teller. I can do ad-lib and banter, but I don't do jokes.
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I hate Mondays - I hate that feeling you've got to get yourself up.
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You can shuffle my deck any day!
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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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He was so good at everything he did. You can't call Ronnie Barker a comedian. He was an actor, and a great writer.
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People think I am the crazy person on stage, but I know how to relax.
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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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When a performer doesn't get nervous, that is when you have to give up.
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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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It could still be a good night if you play your cards right.
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In my mind, everything is too sanitised on television - what is wrong with things going wrong?
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Golf is hugely important, as it keeps me going.
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