Top 36 Quotes & Sayings by Jeremy Kyle

We have this joke in England that half the people want me to be prime minister, and the other half want me shot.

I have never had a pair of knickers sent in the post. I've had jams, lemon drizzle cakes, West Ham football shirts and footballs and books. I've had pillowcases with my face on, tea towels with my face on, face flannels with my face on, towels with my face on.

The U.K. voted for Brexit and a lot of weak-willed, lily-livered people will say 'yeah but the people did not know what they were voting for, they had no idea of what this was going to entail.' Those are the people who are saying 'lets get a second referendum, let's make the people aware this time that there is, in fact, a lot more to this.'

Many feel sorry for a person like David Platt. He was abandoned by his father, his mother wanted to abort him and his stepdad wanted him dead.

I used to have a gambling problem.

If you stick your head above the parapet and you have an opinion, and you spout family values and morality and all that, you'd be pretty naive to think that everybody would go, 'Oh, he's great, I love him.'

Radio was my first love as a broadcaster and where it all began for my on-air career.

I sort of felt like the runt of the litter. My brother was just great. If you gave him a cricket bat he'd score 100. If he walked into a party he'd pull the best-looking girl. He was my hero.

I see pictures of myself BB - before Botox - and I see the ones after and I am happy. I am on television 1,500 times a year and it is a very small way, and a safe way, of looking a little bit better than I used to.

I've always said I would never say never when it comes to politics.

I am particularly looking forward to meeting ordinary American people and hearing about their extraordinary lives.

I don't think the British people really knew the ramifications of what would happen after Brexit or not.

We all make mistakes, nobody ever wrote a book saying 'This is how you live your life.'

I'm not on Twitter or any of that rubbish. I'm an old man.

I didn't know what I wanted to do until I was 40. Seriously.

I don't want to get into a debate. I have never talked about my first marriage for that reason. I don't think it would be fair to my daughter. I don't think it would be fair to my second wife. That's the past.

And I would never set myself out to be the best parent or the greatest man.

I think the British viewing and listening public are very fickle. If they like you they will listen to you, they will watch you. If they change their mind then it's all over.

I was out of work for, probably, about six months. I had a clear idea about what I wanted to do - I wanted to be in TV so I went to meeting after meeting after meeting. I had a six-month-old baby and a family to support.

My three children keep me calm.

I was actually born in the front bedroom while my dad sat on the wall outside, feeling sick. Twenty minutes after my mother gave birth, she went downstairs and made my old man a cup of tea.

Some people will always think I've got the eyes of Satan. Others will think I'm a TV god. People have the right to criticise.

When I get through the front door, I haven't got time to tie my shoelaces. There are three kids, and the wife, and I make that absolutely the priority. By the time we've got the kids to bed and had a bite to eat we're in bed by 10:15 and are knackered!

Life isn't a dress rehearsal.

My kids are amazing and they are the ones that keep me going.

I did die once, for seven seconds, after a burst appendix.

Two days after the chemo I felt terrible, like I had a permanent migraine and had been shot in every limb. I was knackered, starving. The doctor explained that was because I had essentially been poisoned.

But I will just make the slight point here - I have never ever bought anything online. I don't know how to.

I'm sure that everyone has been in a situation in their lives where they've had to change their game plan.

A lot of the problems in society nowadays are down to diet and lifestyle - be that obesity, diabetes, asthma caused by smoking or drinking.

When economist William Beveridge dreamed up the postwar welfare state he wanted to fight five 'giant evils' - want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness. Fast forward 65 years and it seems the last New Labour government grew an Unfair State that fuelled - not fought - one of those evils: idleness.

I've not worn underwear for 20 years.

I'm an intelligent man but I don't feel I articulate or get that across nearly enough, especially in social situations.

My dad epitomises everything I'd like my kids to say about me. He gave his kids the best start and he had values.

Cancer is just one little word but, when you hear it, it turns your whole life upside down.

I have long held firm to my suspicion that some people are just evil. In some cases I'll concede it seems as though it is thrust upon someone who had little real hope of avoiding it. However tragic that reality, the simple fact remains that it is more important to protect the rest of society for as long as it remains a danger to them.