Quotes by Michael Parkinson

“Even now a team of linguists is at work translating Don Revies writings on the game [of football] from the original gibberish into Arabic.”

“Hes our biggest repository of useless knowledge. National Icon, National Treasure, and National Dustbin.”

“I finish every book I start.”

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

“If the music industry has decided Im influential, then thats their business, ... They tell me thats the case, but I think it would ruin an innocent mind if I were aware of that.”

“a bloody good comedian and a lovely man.”

“Ive been trying to get sober for the last four years, and I keep falling off and I keep getting back on,”

“For me personally it is because I get an awful amount of success and I dont think I deserve it and then I want to sabotage it.”

“He was very shy, a man uneasy with the fame that came with the job.”

“[But yesterdays tributes painted a portrait of a quiet, private man who never grew accustomed to the limelight that accompanied his success.] He was very shy, ... A man uneasy with the fame that came with the job. A man who liked to observe in the shade. He reminded me of Alec Guinness in that sense. But, my word, when he stood centre stage youd better watch him.”