Michael Parkinson

“I was a purist bore.”

“Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk.”

“I'm very fond of piano players.”

“For me personally it is because I get an awful amount of success and I don't think I deserve it and then I want to sabotage it.”

“In my view a jazz musician is a great musician.”

“It's not so much about what you ask as what you don't ask.”

“There's no way you can create a chemistry where none exists.”

“Confidence has a lot to do with interviewing - that, and timing.”

“I think life without Coronation Street would be unthinkable. It's part of all our lives.”