Quotes by Bruce Vilanch

About Bruce Vilanch:

Bruce Vilanch is an American comedy writer, songwriter and actor. He is a six-time Emmy Award-winner. Vilanch is best known to the public for his four-year stint on Hollywood Squares, as a celebrity participant; behind the scenes he was head writer for the show. In 2000, he performed off-Broadway in his self-penned one-man show, Bruce Vilanch: Almost Famous.
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When AIDS hit, lots of people banded together to take care of each other and do what the government wasn't doing. When you grow up Jewish, as I have, you learn that everybody hates you, no one's going to help you, and you have to take care of yoursel...

Bruce Vilanch

It's really live television, the way God meant it to be.

Bruce Vilanch

I've learned that most of gay America is coupled up, or looking to be. No wonder gay marriage has such traction. So many of us are already in it, so of course we want the legal benefits.

Bruce Vilanch

Eddie Izzard is absolutely brilliant. I would love to write something for him.

Bruce Vilanch

I have one rave 'New York Times' review framed next to a flop 'Los Angeles Times' review. And it's for the same show. These people watched the same show. That's what happens. They love it, they hate it.

Bruce Vilanch

It's the biggest party in the world, and you have to keep the whole thing percolating, which is difficult because a lot of awards most people don't care about.

Bruce Vilanch

I do a lot of screen re-writing.

Bruce Vilanch

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

Bruce Vilanch

I mean, I've sold all these scripts and nothing's been made. Studios have closed, stars have died. I had a director find Jesus. And the pictures just don't get made.

Bruce Vilanch

Generally with the Oscars or the Emmys there isn't much you can do until the nominations are announced. Then you know what kind of year you're dealing with - what's been overlooked, what the issues are.

Bruce Vilanch

What makes me laugh? Richard Nixon always made me laugh.

Bruce Vilanch

My skirt fell off on stage during a performance of Hairspray on Broadway, revealing my fat suit over my own natural fat suit. I turned to the audience and said, 'Now you know why I spent six years in a square.'

Bruce Vilanch

Every single line on the Oscar show is negotiated. Unless you've been there, you have no idea how it is put together. It's like nothing else on earth. I'm writing a book about it, but I have to throw in my sexual escapades to make sure it sells.

Bruce Vilanch

Of course I adored and wanted to be Catwoman. That goes without saying.

Bruce Vilanch

My assistant says I'm an eBay auction waiting to happen. I have a very large collection of T-shirts... about 4,000 now. Maybe I'll pillage it someday. I have resisted the offers to do a line of T-shirts.

Bruce Vilanch

I've got more chins than a San Francisco phonebook.

Bruce Vilanch

I think I intimidate hecklers because I weigh more than most of them.

Bruce Vilanch

Musicals have clearly gotten more physical. You never saw Ethel Merman doing step aerobics.

Bruce Vilanch

Who knew we had all this O.C.D. in the world? Well actually, I suppose it's pretty obvious. It explains Sudoku, doesn't it?

Bruce Vilanch

For years, I was compared to Wookiees, especially after I did the 'Star Wars Holiday Special.' I have some photos of me with a few of the Wookiees on the set, and it's hard to tell us apart.

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Author Bio

  • NameBruce Vilanch
  • DescriptionAmerican comedy writer, head writer for the Oscars
  • BornNovember 23, 1948
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Writer
  • AwardsEmmy Award