Bruce Forsyth Quotes

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.'

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.

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

You can shuffle my deck any day!

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.

He was so good at everything he did. You can't call Ronnie Barker a comedian. He was an actor, and a great writer.

When you've been brought up in variety, I think timing is always important in your life. If I'm ever late for anything, whether it's personal or business, I always apologise. 'I'm sorry I'm late,' and all that. And if somebody is late meeting me, I expect them to say 'I'm sorry I'm late.' It's just, shall we say, showbiz etiquette of my day.

That Mick Jagger, I feel sorry for him. After all these years he still can't get no satisfaction.

I love getting on You Tube to look at the old comics. I am in my element seeing guys like Jack Benny and Phil Silvers give interviews.

Television is great but for me, as a performer, nothing compares to a live theatre show.

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.

Puerto Rico is one of those places you can be as quiet or as crazy as you want, because there's so much nightlife. I have to take the craziness carefully.

Probably more than anybody else, I loved Nat 'King' Cole as a performer - not only his singing but his piano playing. Whenever he had a new record come out, I'd get it and try to learn how he was playing. And he was one of the nicest people I'd ever met.

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.

A round of golf is the ideal antidote to stress.

I can tell by the way somebody walks if they can dance or not. Just by the rhythm.

When I married Wilnelia, one of the first things I wanted to know about Puerto Rico was the quality of the golf courses.

People think I rush around all day long like a raving lunatic. I'm much more relaxed than that.

I don't do close-ups any more. I am better looking from the waist downwards.

I do lead a careful diet, I don't overeat, I have fruit and vegetables every day and I drink a lot of water. And my darling wife keeps me so young it is ridiculous. Being with her is an inspiration as well.

It's the combination of marrying a beautiful woman three decades younger and my iPad that keeps me young.

Goodness, that Simon Cowell is a sensitive soul.

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

People think I am the crazy person on stage, but I know how to relax.

I am not doddery ... doddery I am not!

On stage, I think I'm 35. Working takes over my whole body and I become a younger man - that's why I won't stop.

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.

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.

Just doing any kind of work - even an interview for breakfast television - makes me feel happy.

Golf is hugely important, as it keeps me going.

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

Ambition can take the place of everything - even sex.

In my mind, everything is too sanitised on television - what is wrong with things going wrong?

Did you write the words, or the lyrics?

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.

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.