Exclusive 60 Selected Quotes From Declan Donnelly | Status Free Download
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I think there is more to this world than we can possibly fathom. There's got to be.
— Declan Donnelly
Put your head down and work hard and you can achieve what you want. You can end up in Buckingham Palace.
— Declan Donnelly
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.
— Declan Donnelly
I think working as part of a brotherhood shows you can achieve personal satisfaction in a team.
— Declan Donnelly
Sometimes life has to tell you a little more forcefully: 'Slow down or change direction.'
— Declan Donnelly
I was an average student. Not a dunce. Used to play for the school football team.
— Declan Donnelly
We knew we were making records for a certain demographic. We didn't look outside of that.
— Declan Donnelly
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.
— Declan Donnelly
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.
— Declan Donnelly
We have got offered some shows in America, but really dopey shows - like reality shows.
— Declan Donnelly
I've never massively minded not being cool.
— Declan Donnelly
The real big learning curve for us was 'SM:TV.'
— Declan Donnelly
I had my crisis at 30. I was actually really comfortable with 40. Life was in a better place.
— Declan Donnelly
Ant was the only person who knew I was going to propose.
— Declan Donnelly
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.'
— Declan Donnelly
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.
— Declan Donnelly
Right is what you should do, wrong is what you really want to do.
— Declan Donnelly
I learnt violin at school and hated it. I wish I'd learnt guitar or piano.
— Declan Donnelly
When times were good, we made more money. When times are bad, we make less money.
— Declan Donnelly
Ours is a career built on a friendship, not a friendship built on a career.
— Declan Donnelly
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.
— Declan Donnelly
We saw the band as an acting job - it was an extension of 'Byker Grove.' We were even still called PJ and Duncan.
— Declan Donnelly
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.
— Declan Donnelly
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.
— Declan Donnelly
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.
— Declan Donnelly
We got sacked for the first time when we were just 18 and you realise that this whole industry is transient and changeable.
— Declan Donnelly
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.'
— Declan Donnelly
We were pushing the boundaries a bit of Saturday morning telly and trying new things.
— Declan Donnelly
We did 'Friends Like These' on BBC and 'Slap Bang' on ITV which didn't work as well.
— Declan Donnelly
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.
— Declan Donnelly
We never want the audience to get bored.
— Declan Donnelly
I think you learn every day. You can't buy experiences; all these experiences shape you.
— Declan Donnelly
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.
— Declan Donnelly
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.
— Declan Donnelly
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.
— Declan Donnelly
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.
— Declan Donnelly
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.
— Declan Donnelly
Cool is just something we've never been.
— Declan Donnelly
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.
— Declan Donnelly
Saturday mornings, you've got three hours of live telly and it's really forgiving.
— Declan Donnelly
I love a sneeze.
— Declan Donnelly
I've definitely never said, 'Well, how about that, eh, I'm a national treasure.'
— Declan Donnelly
When we were 17, I got my first car, a Mini Metro.
— Declan Donnelly
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.
— Declan Donnelly
Animals are great but babies are the most magical thing ever.
— Declan Donnelly
I go for a sensible dinner with the wife when I can.
— Declan Donnelly
I think we're paid a going rate for how well our shows do.
— Declan Donnelly
It's naive to think we're the only living beings in this universe.
— Declan Donnelly
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.
— Declan Donnelly
When we became TV presenters, I found a place for myself and Ant bought the house for sale two doors away.
— Declan Donnelly
I might be a natural show-off but being your best mate's best man is a different kettle of fish.
— Declan Donnelly
I do like 'Question Time.'
— Declan Donnelly
You know you're getting older when the record executives start getting younger.
— Declan Donnelly
We've talked about a sitcom and a comedy drama. It's getting the right project and working with the right people.
— Declan Donnelly
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.
— Declan Donnelly
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.
— Declan Donnelly
We need to start saying no to stuff.
— Declan Donnelly
We want to bring the kids, the parents, the grandparents and grandkids together, we want them to have a shared viewing experience. We want the kids to talk about it in the playground, dad to talk about it down the pub, grandma to talk about it while she's out shopping.
— Declan Donnelly
Thank you to everyone who works with us on our shows for making us look like we know what we're doing.
— Declan Donnelly
No one looks forward to getting old do they?
— Declan Donnelly
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