Bruce Vilanch Quotes

People love things about Hollywood. People love to see the inside of what's going on.

I love taking advantage of red carpets.

Much of my publishing life was consumed by the memoirs of movie stars - or by attempts to get them to write a memoir.

If your family was part of the movie business, then watching 'Moguls & Movie Stars' is like looking at the family photo album: hilarious to members of the family, numbingly boring to those outside the family circle.

Hollywood has been an enormous part of my life, as I know it has been for countless fans all over the world.

I loved reading magazines about the entertainment world.

I meet celebrities all the time, but I have no idea who they are because I don't watch television.

If you grow up in show business, you look beyond the looking glass. So, all of the surface facades get broken.

In terms of TV shows, if you're a public figure, we've all been asked to do some sort of ridiculous show at some stage.

I don't do the show business lifestyle, you'll never see me rolling out of parties with a goody bag in my hand. My night out is a night in, with friends round for dinner.

I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.

I don't do movie junket-y things, because I don't really do movies that much.

The tech rehearsal for Brits is so different. They have little glasses of wine and walk around saying, 'Lovely, darling, lovely.'

I had heard that in Bollywood, one gets publicity without even asking for it. There are new rumours every day and the celebrities involved get disturbed.

I definitely don't like red carpets. I go on the red carpet because I have to but I'm not a big fan. That's not my thing. I'd rather be in the studio making music and performing.

We're never going to be the ultimate-insider look. You can do 50 insider looks at this Hollywood business, and the satire didn't intrigue me. I think others can do that.

Hollywood is a great place if you're an orange.

As an actor, Hollywood would be a horrible place to go if you weren't actually invited.

I might have been curious about actors' lives when I was growing up. That's human nature.

[on Hollywood] It looks, it feels, as though it had been invented by a Sixth Avenue peepshow man.

I am writing my second novel for children for Simon and Schuster.

I've never been "celeb-y" actor. You know, you don't catch me falling out of nightclubs at three o'clock in the morning. Well, very rarely! But I find it all a bit baffling, the whole celeb thing and I don't really get it.

Isn't Hollywood a dump-in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement.

Hollywood is wonderful. Anyone who doesn't like it is either crazy or sober.

A lot of people are curious why I'm a lesbian - ladies and gentlemen, the cast of Entourage.