Michael Parkinson Quotes & Sayings

It reassures parents that we are aware of the employment difficulty and that we are doing as much as we can to provide information to their sons and daughters, and to help them deal with the post-graduate reality. — Michael Parkinson

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

When if comes to ballyhoo, Muhammad Ali made Barnum and Bailey look like non-starters, and he had the incandescent quality of the real star which would have made him famous, even if his gift was knitting not fighting. — Michael Parkinson

There's no way you can create a chemistry where none exists. — Michael Parkinson

I'm very fond of piano players. — Michael Parkinson

I was brought up on choirs and brass bands. They formed the music of my childhood. When I heard the Treorchy Male Choir at the Royal Variety Performance it brought back such happy memories. You have your own eminent place in the history of British music. You stand for excellence in a great tradition and your work for charity is both an example and an inspiration. — Michael Parkinson

No creaking gates, no gothic towers, no shuttered windows. Yet for the past ten months this house has been the focus of an astonishing barrage of supernatural activity. — Michael Parkinson

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

So much interviewing these days is about the presenter - I?m a clever boy, I?m going to be smart with people; or it?s a trivial - how do you like your eggs boiled? — Michael Parkinson

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

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician. — Michael Parkinson

I was a purist bore. — Michael Parkinson

Confidence has a lot to do with interviewing - that, and timing. — Michael Parkinson

Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk. — Michael Parkinson

Presenting feels like it did 50 years ago, but the pay's a lot better. — Michael Parkinson