Bruce Vilanch Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“I do a lot of screen re-writing.”

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

“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.”

“They make a humongous profit, but the people that work on the shows don't get paid a lot because they're working on the Oscars show. It's the biggest show in the world.”

“I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write other people's movies, and those are all different kinds of fees.”

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

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

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

“As I'm always fond of telling hosts at the Oscars who are doing it for their first time, for everybody who wins, there are four people who don't. As the evening wears on, the room fills up with losers, and then they are bitter.”