“I was always telling everyone, I want to be a broadcaster. They'd say,...” — Larry King Quote

“I was always telling everyone, I want to be a broadcaster. They'd say, What, are you crazy? What, you're going to be Arthur Godfrey?”

“Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.”

“I've made a lot of mistakes. I've bonded with some people who use you, and some people that take advantage of you.”

“The first-ever job I had was in a play, 'Trench Kiss,' with Caroline Quentin and Arthur Smith.”

“When I was young, I saw some of my heroes doing it on the telly. We're talking about Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Arthur Lowe, Ian McKellan, Kenneth Williams. These were all guys telling stories to me.”

“I look up to the older generation of men - Arthur Scargill, Tony Benn, Jeremy Corbyn - but my main role model has been my step-granddad Jim. He's brilliant, very political, quite eccentric.”