Quotes by Michael Parkinson

• Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk.
• There's no way you can create a chemistry where none exists.
• It's not so much about what you ask as what you don't ask.
• In my view a jazz musician is a great musician.
• I'm very fond of piano players.
• I was a purist bore.
• I think life without Coronation Street would be unthinkable. It's part of all our lives.
• 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.
• Confidence has a lot to do with interviewing - that, and timing.