More - Michael Parkinson Quotes

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

Michael Parkinson

 

He's our biggest repository of useless knowledge. National Icon, National Treasure, and National Dustbin.

Michael Parkinson

 

I finish every book I start.

Michael Parkinson

 

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

Michael Parkinson

 British Journalist Life

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.

Michael Parkinson

 

a bloody good comedian and a lovely man.

Michael Parkinson

 Man

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

Michael Parkinson

 Trying

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.

Michael Parkinson

 British Journalist Success

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

Michael Parkinson

 

[But yesterday's 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 you'd better watch him.

Michael Parkinson

 Man