Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Declan Donnelly
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English producer Declan Donnelly.
Last updated on December 25, 2024.
When we were 17, I got my first car, a Mini Metro.
I'm not sure how much Ant and I are insured against each other. I've heard it's a couple of million. However much it is, it would never be compensation for losing your best mate. I've never wanted to work alone since we started together. All the ideas we have are for the pair of us.
I think from doing so many live shows it gives you a real appreciation of being present. You don't know what's going to happen, you don't know what is around the corner.
The real big learning curve for us was 'SM:TV.'
We were lucky that when we were making the transition from children's to prime time a lot of other presenters our age shied away from that arena.
Running in heels can be treacherous, and don't get me started on fake eyelashes!
I had my crisis at 30. I was actually really comfortable with 40. Life was in a better place.
Nobody ever sets out to make a flop, but it's going to happen. You have to pick yourself up, dust yourself down and say: 'Right, we go again.'
Put your head down and work hard and you can achieve what you want. You can end up in Buckingham Palace.
I think obviously there is some kind of life form somewhere else. Whether it looks like the creature in 'Alien Autopsy,' I'm not sure.
I think Ant and I were ambitious because of where we come from. Both of us are from working-class families on council estates in Newcastle.
People would always try and set me up, which was awkward. You can't set me up on a blind date because she will automatically know more about me.
I go for a sensible dinner with the wife when I can.
I was a bit nervous before I got married and Ant said to me: 'Honestly, it just gets better.' It's amazing and the best thing I ever did.
We did a version of 'You Bet' called 'Wanna Bet' in the U.S. a couple of years ago. It was a good little show but the network put it on over the summer on Mondays so nobody watched it.
We treated it as another acting job. Some of these other bands had been put together, and it was their dream come true to be in a band, and that wasn't really the case for us. It was the next part of what we were doing.
When times were good, we made more money. When times are bad, we make less money.
It's naive to think we're the only living beings in this universe.
We were pushing the boundaries a bit of Saturday morning telly and trying new things.
I think you learn every day. You can't buy experiences; all these experiences shape you.
I've definitely never said, 'Well, how about that, eh, I'm a national treasure.'
We need to start saying no to stuff.
I learnt violin at school and hated it. I wish I'd learnt guitar or piano.
Sometimes life has to tell you a little more forcefully: 'Slow down or change direction.'
When you're younger you feel more invincible - that nothing is ever going to get you down or beat you. When you get a bit older, you realise the fragility of things, how easy it is to get caught out by things - and Ant did.
We don't get any hate mail.
Ant was the only person who knew I was going to propose.
I was an average student. Not a dunce. Used to play for the school football team.
Anyone who's ever had a loved one go through addiction will know just how devastating it can be and how tough it is for those around them, as much as it is for the addict.
When we used to watch some BBC kids' shows it felt like some of the presenters were parental figures, we wanted to be their cheeky uncles really, their fun uncles, and speak to them on their level.
We knew we were making records for a certain demographic. We didn't look outside of that.
Saturday Night Takeaway' is the show we always wanted to make. It's a direct descendant of 'Game For A Laugh' and 'Noel's House Party' and 'Russ Abbot's Madhouse,' and they're all shows we grew up on as kids.
I think we're paid a going rate for how well our shows do.
I've never massively minded not being cool.
We have got offered some shows in America, but really dopey shows - like reality shows.
We always had one eye on doing Saturday night TV even when we were back doing mornings. That's where we wanted to go to get a bigger audience.
Ant and Dec seemed a natural name for us - it was just how people referred to us, cos we were always together. I've never resented the fact that his name comes first.
Right is what you should do, wrong is what you really want to do.
We saw the band as an acting job - it was an extension of 'Byker Grove.' We were even still called PJ and Duncan.
I think there is more to this world than we can possibly fathom. There's got to be.
We've talked about a sitcom and a comedy drama. It's getting the right project and working with the right people.
We did 'Friends Like These' on BBC and 'Slap Bang' on ITV which didn't work as well.
We got sacked for the first time when we were just 18 and you realise that this whole industry is transient and changeable.
The first meaningful friendship moment we had was when Ant sent me a Fred Flintstone Christmas card and it said, 'To Dec from Ant, have a yabba dabba do Christmas.'
I might be a natural show-off but being your best mate's best man is a different kettle of fish.
We never want the audience to get bored.
When we were first doing kids' shows with the BBC they asked us where we wanted to be in a few years' time and we said we want to be where Noel Edmonds is.
Ours is a career built on a friendship, not a friendship built on a career.
When we met Susan Boyle she was a very unassuming lady. We didn't expect anything and we were probably a little dismissive of her.
We always said our career was built on our friendship and that our friendship was the secret of our success. The career just happened by accident.
I do like 'Question Time.'
Animals are great but babies are the most magical thing ever.
Saturday mornings, you've got three hours of live telly and it's really forgiving.
Cool is just something we've never been.
We're incredibly lucky and I get to work with my best mate - I don't know why I'd ever want to stop doing that really.
I love a sneeze.
I think working as part of a brotherhood shows you can achieve personal satisfaction in a team.
You know you're getting older when the record executives start getting younger.
It's funny. I don't really think of us as TV presenters. I think of TV presenters as responsible people who show children what to do with empty fairy liquid bottles. Not a couple of blokes who don't mind telling kids to shut up.
When we became TV presenters, I found a place for myself and Ant bought the house for sale two doors away.
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