Bruce Forsyth Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“I hate Mondays - I hate that feeling you've got to get yourself up.”

“I'm not even really a joke-teller. I can do ad-lib and banter, but I don't do jokes.”

“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.”

“No one - apart from my agent, perhaps - should leave one of my shows in tears.”

“There are enough tears in any child's life; we certainly don't need to add to them in the name of entertainment.”

“When a performer doesn't get nervous, that is when you have to give up.”

“You can only be as good as your audience. Sometimes you can be as bad as your audience, but you have to remember you can never be better than them.”

“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.”

“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.'”

“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.”