Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Ant McPartlin
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
The difference between doing a live show and a sitcom is that a sitcom can live on. If you do it well, it can leave a legacy, whereas most of our live work never gets repeated because it's final, it's done, you start again.
Some people are very cynical about it, but we're not trying to replace Bob and Terry.
In our day-to-day lives we're not very introspective - especially not British northern blokes.
We struggle so much with wanting everybody to like us, we weaken ourselves at times.
We never wanted to move to a niche slot at 11 at night so that we could be a lot cleverer and bluer. We just want to do those big light-entertainment shows we loved as kids.
I suffer really badly with insomnia.
I'm just one of those people who happens to be all or nothing. A lot of people can be middle. I'm not.
I let a lot of people down, and for that I am truly sorry.
When our characters in 'Byker Grove,' PJ and Duncan, shared a storyline, we became really close. We'd go out to the pictures, stay at each other's houses, have parties when family members were away.
Just saying I'd like to do a sitcom is poison words, isn't it?
In L.A. or New York, we don't fit. I think middle America could relate to us a lot, but we've never been given the opportunity to get out there.
Going back to school, having done 'Byker Grove' and being on the telly when you're 13, all the kids are very jealous and it can make it a quite hostile environment.
I loved my Nintendo 64 growing up.
The thing about 'CD:U.K.' was, because the show started quite small with small viewing figures and it built and built, the bigger the figures got, the better and bigger the pop star you got.
Among double acts, Morecambe and Wise are number one, definitely.
Obviously, the BBC is funded by licence-payers. If you are paying for a TV licence, when you see what people are paid, then you know you're funding that.
I was one of four blokes that done drama at my school.
When you're bored, it doesn't necessarily mean the audience is bored.
My dad left the family when I was about 10 and I've seen him sporadically over the years.
On 'Takeaway' we wear these little earpieces because the show is live, but if you push them into your ear they go further into your eardrum and really hurt. One woman flung her arms around us and crushed my head so the earpiece went in. I nearly fainted. I lost my vision for a bit.
I think I'm quite up and down, I'm quite hyper. Either hyper up or down.
We always hark back to what we used to love watching as kids: 'Noel's House Party,' 'Don't Forget Your Toothbrush,' shows that had that live excitement about them. You never knew what was going to happen and I found that really engaging.
If it happens, it happens, but because everything is going so well over here, we're not dying to break America.
I'd love to be able to play the piano.
Sometimes we spend 20 minutes just watching Carol Vorderman brush her hair in the mornings.
Dec's punctuality leaves a lot to be desired.
Not bipolar, but I lean towards manicness and then lowness.
We did the original 'Pop Idol,' so I don't think we could go back to do a singing show.
I've got ADHD. I don't mind talking about that.
My dad and I didn't speak for a long time, but we're talking again now, which is great.
It's a very hard thing to explain when we sit with writers on our shows. But then if they show us a sketch, instinctively we'd know who we'd play.
We have a show very early on called 'Slap Bang' on a Saturday night and it didn't work. It started off peak time and started getting earlier and earlier in the schedule. I think that that taught us you have to adapt.
People are always telling me to cheer up.
To feel love and give love - it's the greatest feeling there is.
We learnt a lot from doing Panto, actually back when we were still doing 'SMTV: Live.' We learnt how far we could push things and the show was all the better for that. I think that taught us you really have to know your audience because you could see how they would react to things.
Katie Hopkins was in 'I'm A Celebrity' but you wouldn't really remember her doing it, as she didn't really shine.
What's annoying is we've launched a lot of shows like 'Pop Idol,' and then it goes to the States, and everything stays the same, yet they change the hosts. 'I'm A Celebrity' has been done twice in America now - but they changed the hosts. 'America's Got Talent,' we don't host - somebody else hosts.
I think you can show off too much, and that would have been such a no-no from me growing up.
You shouldn't worry who gets the funny line, just that you're being funny as a double act. With us, it flips all the time. There's no real straight man or funny man.
If you grow up poor, I'm not sure you ever shake that off.
If it wasn't for 'Byker Grove' we wouldn't be where we are today.
Entertainment is about having a blast.
I remember Phillip Schofield saying to us, just before we started 'SMTV: Live'... 'It will be the best fun you will ever have on telly.'You know what the innocence and freedom we got on that show you don't get anywhere else. We could just mess about.
SM:TV' is where we learned our trade. It was young, we could try out new sketches every week. When we got better ratings than our BBC rival, 'Live And Kicking,' it was amazing.
If you are enjoying yourself its infectious.
We love 'I'm a Celebrity,' 'Britain's Got Talent,' 'Saturday Night Takeway,' but they're all live shows.
I do believe that nurture has a great deal to do with how you end up as a human being.
I always read interviews with people and they say I was a right joker at school, I was a right loner at school - but I was just kind of average.
I'm kind of an all-round good guy.
Loads of people thought we were gay.
I'm just known as Ant and Dec, even when I'm on my own.
We love the 'Britain's Got Talent' process, we love interacting and responding with the public, it's just good fun.
Life just swallowed me up for a few years.
I think if you are having fun the audience will have fun too.
We're just grateful, we learn to be in moment and enjoy what we're doing.
To be fair, life is too short. There is no point holding grudges or anything like that.
I think Jonathan Ross is brilliant.
With 'SMTV' it was a very brave decision by ITV to commission it for a year. It was so awful to start with and the ratings were so low to start with we might never have made it past the first six months.
We're never really spotted falling out of nightclubs. We don't go to places where there are photographers hanging out.
For a double act to work, you shouldn't have egos.
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