Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" All of us are private to ourselves. Nobody ever really knows anybody else. Everybody in the world keeps something to themselves. "
Terry Wogan
Nobody
Anybody
World
Related Quotes:
" I was brought up to do my duty. Not to be vain, not to shout from the rooftops about my virtues - to be modest and well-behaved. I'm totally wrong for show business. "
Terry Wogan
Duty
Show
Up
" 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. "
Terry Wogan
Preparation
Real
Think
" All reality TV shows are a triumph of voyeurism. They choose contestants who are ill-suited and slightly freakish. "
Terry Wogan
Triumph
Choose
TV
" 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! "
Terry Wogan
Avoid
People
Age
" Nobody really knows what they look like. The mirror shows you only what you want to see. "
Terry Wogan
Look
You
Want
" Places like India can give you a real culture shock because of the poverty you see, and it brings you up sharply. "
Terry Wogan
Poverty
Real
India
" I've never wanted to drive a car fast for the sake of it. I mean, I like nice cars. I've got the Bentley, I've had a Lotus, I've had a Rolls-Royce and a few Jaguars, including an E-type. But I'm not somebody for driving tremendously fast. "
Terry Wogan
Mean
Car
Nice
" My life has been a happy accident. Anybody who succeeds in anything should count their lucky stars, because that's the biggest element. It's not hard work; it's not necessarily talent. "
Terry Wogan
Happy
Hard Work
Life
" I've always been the kind of person who leaves parties early to catch the last bus home. "
Terry Wogan
Bus
Person
Home
" I'm on the university board in Limerick, so I visit the city often. "
Terry Wogan
University
Board
City
" Oh, I'm a great believer in the power of the pause. Radio is a bit brasher now. My style was slower. I just used to go in, open the microphone and say the first thing that came into my head. "
Terry Wogan
Now
Power
Say
" I'd have liked to have been a bit more intellectual. I'd have liked to have had more brains. "
Terry Wogan
Had
Brains
More
" I'm never going to write a book like Anthony Sher did, you know, 'The Broadcaster Prepares.' I'm only talking to myself. I'd have liked to be a writer, or a journalist, but if things don't come easy to me I don't do them. I think if you're always thinking how difficult something is, you shouldn't be doing it. "
Terry Wogan
Know
Myself
Think
" There's more to life than passing exams, and paper qualifications can only take you so far. A lot depends on luck, and on being in the right place at the right time, which was certainly true in my case. "
Terry Wogan
You
Time
True
" Treasure is the kind of thing you dig up... or bury! And when people say, 'Oh, he's an icon,' well, an icon is a very old painting hanging in a Russian church! If you want to say something, say something nice about me. Don't call me a national treasure. "
Terry Wogan
You
Me
Church
" The BBC is the greatest broadcaster in the world. It's the standard that everyone measures themselves against. If we lose the BBC, it won't be quite as bad as losing the royal family, but an integral part of this country will have gone. But then, I'm an old guy. "
Terry Wogan
Bad
Family
Lose
" Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it. "
Terry Wogan
Radio
Television
Imagination
" I'm not big on the pasty because they say the pastry in the pasty can bring on indigestion. "
Terry Wogan
Big
They Say
Say
" I will never do 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!' There are certain things you'll do that you have some control over, but you should do things that leave your fate in the hands of others, too. "
Terry Wogan
Me
Control
Celebrity
" 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. "
Terry Wogan
Beginning
Early
Never
" 'Senior Citizen' and 'Silver Surfer' are the new euphemisms. Unless you're a female presenter on TV, in which case you're ready for the knacker's yard at 35. "
Terry Wogan
Ready
Citizen
You
" A television chat show is light entertainment, so it is trivial by its very nature. It is hardly the place to get people to reveal their innermost thoughts. Then it becomes sensationalism, and you lower yourself to the level of the popular newspapers. "
Terry Wogan
Light
Place
Thoughts
" I was born an optimist, as I always say. If I wake up in the morning with a pain in my chest, I'll always assume it's indigestion. It will probably be the end of me! But it's true - that's the kind of person I am. "
Terry Wogan
I Am
End
Wake Up
" I have to say, without getting up on a soapbox, I find these reality shows absolutely disgusting. "
Terry Wogan
Find
Up
Without
" I get a lot of letters from people saying, 'How do I get into radio, how do I get into telly?' and I wish there was an answer, because there's no ladder. There are no parameters. You've just got to go in wherever you can, make the tea, and slowly make your way up the ladder. "
Terry Wogan
Tea
People
Ladder
" I have great fun with the Togs - Terry's Old Geezers and Gals. They're a group that formed around me over the years of my radio shows. They are loyal to me and I'm loyal to them, so I've been to their conventions - Leicester University gives us their campus. "
Terry Wogan
University
Me
Group
" I'm so proud to do it - there's nothing else I do that compares to 'Children in Need.' "
Terry Wogan
Children
Else
Need
" I'm terribly shallow. I don't miss things once I have stopped doing them, and I don't miss people when I stop seeing them. "
Terry Wogan
Seeing
Stop
Shallow
" Why do men think they know how to cook outside when they haven't the smallest idea how to go about it indoors? "
Terry Wogan
Know
Outside
Men
" It's only a matter of time before it all starts to fall apart, before things start to fall off. Short legs, long body. The kind of person who in the Middle Ages would come up over the hill on his horse, and they'd say, 'Get Wogan,' and I'd be there with my shield, the first to die. "
Terry Wogan
Horse
Short
Time