A biography for Terry Woganhasn’t been written yet.
“I have a happy temperament: a bit like 'Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.'”
“Time flies like an arrow - but fruit flies like a banana.”
“Sadly, I can't avoid being 75. Like many people of my age, we are all heading towards the grim reaper, and I am clinging on. I just to have to sharpen my fingernails a little so that I can hang on for longer!”
“I've always had an unsentimental view. I don't think the BBC is my auntie. I worked there for years, and you learn that they don't love you for yourself. They'll use you as long as you're popular. You shouldn't wait until it starts to wane. It can sometimes end badly.”
“I have to say, without getting up on a soapbox, I find these reality shows absolutely disgusting.”
“Most television could be presented by a dachshund. Radio can't, although there are a lot of dachshunds in there.”
“I'd have liked to have been a bit more intellectual. I'd have liked to have had more brains.”
“I don't do a lot when I'm in Gascony. I swim and play the odd game of golf, but mainly I sit around. We're set an hour-and-a-half from the Pyrenees and an hour-and-a-half from the Bay of Biscay, so we get plenty of storms. But we're surrounded by vines and sunflowers - it's lovely.”
“I'm so proud to do it - there's nothing else I do that compares to 'Children in Need.'”
“I don't like seeing myself on screen. Whenever I see or hear myself, I think, 'What is that eejet doing now?' I'm in the wrong business. I don't like the limelight.”
“I've no patience for people who say they never watch television. It's a great way to keep in touch with popular culture, and it's important that children can relate to what their schoolmates are watching.”
“Age, they say, is only important if you're cheese. or a wine. They also say, if you are stuck behind one on a golf course, that a tree is 90 per cent air. How come, then, that you invariably send your ball crashing into the remaining 10 per cent?”
“Why do men think they know how to cook outside when they haven't the smallest idea how to go about it indoors?”
“The high spot of my day has always been getting home to have my dinner with my family. It still is: to have my dinner with Helen. It's a cocktail and dinner. I know I'm a tired old geezer, but there you are.”
“All of us are private to ourselves. Nobody ever really knows anybody else. Everybody in the world keeps something to themselves.”
“I think if they wanted to get me to leave 'Children in Need,' they'd have to drag me off screaming. It's one thing that's so close to my heart, and I feel passionately about it. I gave up my radio show, with regret, but knowing I'd done it for a long time, the same with Eurovision. But 'Children in Need' is different.”
“Da was a real fisherman. But it wasn't the catch that mattered, it was the skill of the cast, the preparation of the flies. I often think my inability to prepare, my desire to get going, are a direct result of watching my father making all those painstaking preparations before he cast his line.”
“The BBC knew I was successful from early on, but they weren't sure why, and they still aren't sure. What I do has been unconventional from the beginning, so they've never been sure. It just works. It just does.”
“I'm asked to do 'Strictly Come Dancing' on a regular basis, but I always say no.”
“BBC היא רשת השידור הגדולה בעולם. אם נפסיד את BBC, זה לא יהיה נורא כמו לאבד את משפחת המלוכה, אבל חלק בלתי נפרד מהמדינה הזו ילך.”