There can be few things more irritating than returning home,
braced and fresh-faced from holiday, to find that everyone who
stayed at home has got a better tan than you.
Terry Wogan |
You don't believe that stuff, do you? If the number quoted
to me is correct, I'm being underpaid. I've got eight million
listeners.
Terry Wogan
On reports his annual salary is in region
of £800,000, April 2006 |
She and I have taken up the diet of Monsieur Montignac which
revolves around goose fat, red wine, cheese and chocolate, so
long ad you don't combine it with bread and potatoes.
Terry Wogan
Going on a diet with his wife |
My career is not yet in that desperate a state that I will
make a spectacle of myself in front of the whole nation.
Terry Wogan
On why he turned down invitations to appear
on TV reality shows, January 2006 |
They'll have to shoot me to stop it. I shall cling to the
wreckage as long as I can.
Terry Wogan
On his covering the Eurovision for BBC |
I put it all down to clean living and plenty of roughage.
Terry Wogan
On his success |
I don't believe in God. My mother was devout and so is my
wife. But I have the intellectual arrogance that makes it very
hard to believe in him. I don't have the gift of faith. I remember
at school I used to make up sins at confession - what we were
told were sins by priests were not sins at all.
Terry Wogan |
I'm very happy that I was as successful as I was in the Seventies
and Eighties, when possibly I was the best-known person in the
country apart from Prince Charles and the Queen.
Terry Wogan
On his career, quoted in Irish Sunday Independent
December 2005 |
It's encouraging the public to sneer at poor pseudo-celebrities.
It's demeaning. In the end we're going to end up with hard porn.
Terry Wogan
Commenting on TV series Hell's Kitchen |
Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.
Terry Wogan |