34 Quotes by Michael Parkinson

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 you'd better watch him.

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

He was hugely talented and had a regard for the written word. He had a writer's judgement about what did and didn't work. He was not invented by television. He was the finished article when he appeared on television.

I've been trying to get sober for the last four years, and I keep falling off and I keep getting back on,

a bloody good comedian and a lovely man.

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

Students recognized that this would help them; we didn't have to tell them.

It'll be good. You put in your requests and hope that one day he'll say yes.

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