Bradley Walsh

“I had spent so many years on 'Law & Order: UK' being a downtrodden detective standing on Hammersmith Bridge at six o'clock in the morning, being rained and snowed on, and I thought, 'I'll have a bit of a change of direction in my career and go and do 'SunTrap' in Gran Canaria.'”

“I was a sheet metal worker, then a metal engineer, then a Pontin's bluecoat, then a comedian. You can achieve anything you want if you put your mind to it.”

“I'm the black sheep: I got into telly.”

“A lot of comics make good actors. Actors make bad comics. They can't do it the other way round.”

“All I ever wanted to do was play football. I was never one for revising, and I only left school with three O Levels.”

“'Law & Order' is a six-month shoot. Everything has to be crammed in. I had so much fun, but it wasn't a holiday. We had seriously long days, and we'd finish at 8 P.M. and start again at 7 A.M. We were doing six-day weeks, which sometimes tripped onto the seventh. But I loved it all.”

“Unfortunately, my football career wasn't very long. The reason I finished playing was because I fractured both ankles in a matter of months.”

“I'm loving every second working with the brilliant Kayvan Novak; it's a hoot from dawn to dusk!”

“I was earning a living. I was getting into more acting, then 'Coronation Street' came along, and it was the chance of a lifetime.”

“My wife, Donna, is a fantastic cook!”

“I love pirates, and I'm a big fan of the Johnny Depp films.”

“I like Hawaiian pizza.”

“I used to watch 'Doctor Who' as a child with William Hartnell and Pat Troughton in the black-and-white days, so being cast is brilliant.”

“People don't realise I have seriously bad blepharitis.”

“We've made it to the 1000th episode of 'The Chase,' as the show is so entertaining and informative. I'm so lucky I get to be a part of such a great team and have a laugh at work; I even learn some things, too.”

“Every day I learn something new, and, you know, you go through life's experiences, and if you can bring every experience at some point somewhere in every drama or every story that you have to portray, you will come across an emotion or a feeling you have had some point in your life.”

“Debra Stephenson and I are nothing more than friends and have a close working relationship - we certainly have not had an affair.”

“I've - to be honest with you, I've never had an acting lesson. But I've been at drama school for 50 years.”

“Time travel is a wonderful thing, isn't it?”

“The 'Law & Order' audition was so last-minute. I was already in a shabby suit, the journey was a complete disaster, my train stopped early, it was raining, and I had to show the cabbie the way... I rushed in apologising, gave this terrible reading, and ended up telling my whole journey to them. I must have bored them to tears.”