Bruce Vilanch Quotes

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• I do a lot of screen re-writing.
• Eddie Izzard is absolutely brilliant. I would love to write something for him.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• I mean, when I started out I was billing per hour, like a shrink because you would sit with somebody and work. But most of…
• 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.…
• I've written about 15 screenplays and they all sold - they were all sold on pitches.
• What makes me laugh? Richard Nixon always made me laugh.
• To be gay and out of shape is almost as much of a stigma as just being gay used to be.
• Of course I adored and wanted to be Catwoman. That goes without saying.
• 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.
• It's really live television, the way God meant it to be.

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