It is brilliant to be able to say 'you have never had a holiday with your wife and your kids, here you go.' It is really lovely and heartwarming and we get to do it. It is lovely to get that opportunity. We remember them all.
Ant McPartlin
I'd love to be able to play the piano.
To be fair, life is too short. There is no point holding grudges or anything like that.
Not bipolar, but I lean towards manicness and then lowness.
I was a massive arachnophobe - I just hated spiders.
Anyone who suffers from depression knows once you're in it you're in it and you pretend to everybody till the last second of the day you're OK. Or you go the other way and don't leave the house.
It's OK to take time off and say to friends that I need to get well.
When our characters in 'Byker Grove,' PJ and Duncan, shared a storyline, we became really close. We'd go out to the pictures, stay at each other's houses, have parties when family members were away.
I'm kind of an all-round good guy.
When you're bored, it doesn't necessarily mean the audience is bored.
In our day-to-day lives we're not very introspective - especially not British northern blokes.
There's this working-class guilt - you don't want to be flashy.
You can't go through what I've been through without being humbled.
I suffer really badly with insomnia.
Entertainment is about having a blast.
I've got an Aston Martin.
If you grow up poor, I'm not sure you ever shake that off.
We kind of had a rule where we said we're not just going to do something in the States for the sake of it. We would host a show only if we would host the same show back home.
Some people are very cynical about it, but we're not trying to replace Bob and Terry.
Just saying I'd like to do a sitcom is poison words, isn't it?
The difference between doing a live show and a sitcom is that a sitcom can live on. If you do it well, it can leave a legacy, whereas most of our live work never gets repeated because it's final, it's done, you start again.
Me and Dec are long in the tooth now - we've seen every Bush Tucker trial there is.
It's a very hard thing to explain when we sit with writers on our shows. But then if they show us a sketch, instinctively we'd know who we'd play.
We never wanted to move to a niche slot at 11 at night so that we could be a lot cleverer and bluer. We just want to do those big light-entertainment shows we loved as kids.
We're never really spotted falling out of nightclubs. We don't go to places where there are photographers hanging out.
We have a show very early on called 'Slap Bang' on a Saturday night and it didn't work. It started off peak time and started getting earlier and earlier in the schedule. I think that that taught us you have to adapt.
If you are enjoying yourself its infectious.
We learnt a lot from doing Panto, actually back when we were still doing 'SMTV: Live.' We learnt how far we could push things and the show was all the better for that. I think that taught us you really have to know your audience because you could see how they would react to things.
I think if you are having fun the audience will have fun too.
To feel love and give love - it's the greatest feeling there is.
I do believe that nurture has a great deal to do with how you end up as a human being.
We struggle so much with wanting everybody to like us, we weaken ourselves at times.
Life just swallowed me up for a few years.
I'm just one of those people who happens to be all or nothing. A lot of people can be middle. I'm not.
I think I'm quite up and down, I'm quite hyper. Either hyper up or down.
We love 'I'm a Celebrity,' 'Britain's Got Talent,' 'Saturday Night Takeway,' but they're all live shows.
What's annoying is we've launched a lot of shows like 'Pop Idol,' and then it goes to the States, and everything stays the same, yet they change the hosts. 'I'm A Celebrity' has been done twice in America now - but they changed the hosts. 'America's Got Talent,' we don't host - somebody else hosts.
In L.A. or New York, we don't fit. I think middle America could relate to us a lot, but we've never been given the opportunity to get out there.
I think you can show off too much, and that would have been such a no-no from me growing up.
We love the 'Britain's Got Talent' process, we love interacting and responding with the public, it's just good fun.
I loved my Nintendo 64 growing up.
I was one of four blokes that done drama at my school.
Going back to school, having done 'Byker Grove' and being on the telly when you're 13, all the kids are very jealous and it can make it a quite hostile environment.
People are always telling me to cheer up.
I always read interviews with people and they say I was a right joker at school, I was a right loner at school - but I was just kind of average.
Among double acts, Morecambe and Wise are number one, definitely.
For a double act to work, you shouldn't have egos.
You shouldn't worry who gets the funny line, just that you're being funny as a double act. With us, it flips all the time. There's no real straight man or funny man.
Dec's punctuality leaves a lot to be desired.
I'm just known as Ant and Dec, even when I'm on my own.
