I first saw Walter Hill's second film, 'The Driver,' as a teenager, late at night on the BBC, quite possibly sitting too close to the telly. Given that this 1978 slice of neo-noir takes place almost entirely in the dark streets of a deserted downtown L.A., it's really a perfect midnight movie.

Edgar Wright

There are times when I think, if I were a bit more famous, life could be easier in terms of work because producers want bums on seats, and they're going to get bums on seats if they get a name, if you have had that series on telly.

Alexander Hanson

Work Time Life

I haven't really got much get up and go. I can't believe I'm on the telly. I'm so lazy.

Allan Carr

Up Telly Tell

I'm aware families sit around the telly to watch 'Vera', which is making entertainment out of murder. But I don't enjoy reading about people's pain. I tend to put myself in that position, and it's not somewhere I want to be.

Ann Cleeves

War Men Which

There are houses where they don't any longer have dining tables. They will sit in front of the telly and eat.

Anna Soubry

Will Where Uses

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.

Ant McPartlin

Men You Very

I remember Phillip Schofield saying to us, just before we started 'SMTV: Live'... 'It will be the best fun you will ever have on telly.'You know what the innocence and freedom we got on that show you don't get anywhere else. We could just mess about.

Ant McPartlin

Freedom Art You

I like to get up and get out. Otherwise you end up kicking about, and it's easy to flick the telly on; then before you know it, it is 11 A.M. and you haven't done anything.

Anton du Beke

You Wise Up

I'm a busy girl, and I've been switching gears from telly and putting my heart and soul into music.

Ashley Roberts

Music Art Witch

On telly, there's been a move towards entertainment - with some very high-powered, fast-moving dramas. Then we have the Internet, where we get our information but it's all in bite-size pieces. I think the documentary, as a form, actually speaks to what's missing.

Beeban Kidron

War Power Men

When I got a telly we had no aerial, but I discovered that if I or one of the children stood by it you could get a picture. So I had to make a statue that could stand by the telly.

Beryl Bainbridge

You Too Telly

At yoga you get some sense of spiritual space so that people don't intrude. You can go there and close your eyes and no one will talk to you. People are too worried about not fainting to bother with some bloke who was on the telly.

Bill Bailey

Space Your You

My grandparents lived with us. And I remember watching 'Doctor Who' with my granddad on his new telly. These were the days before remote controls but my granddad, being quite a resourceful sort of chap, had fashioned his own remote control - which was a length of bamboo pole with a bit of cork that he'd glued on the end.

Bill Bailey

Wit Who Which

After your heart fails, you just feel really vulnerable for a while. You just want telly and your little house. Then, suddenly, three, four months have passed.

Bob Mortimer

Art Your You

When we first did 'Big Night Out,' there was no chance of someone doing a little show in a pub then being on telly. There was a little Oxbridge route in and an old-fashioned variety route.

Bob Mortimer

Chance Variety Then

I'm the black sheep: I got into telly.

Bradley Walsh

Telly Tell T

Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.

Caitlin Moran

Art Using Us

Television is where I'm most at home. I'm not one of those TV presenters who secretly yearns to be a Hollywood actress. Live telly is what I thrive on.

Caroline Flack

Home Yearn Year

I think the relentless tide of celebrity stuff on the telly is getting pretty tedious.

Chris Tarrant

Us Tin Tide

I care more about telly because it made me an actor and there's a much more immediate response to TV. You can address the political or cultural fabric of your country.

Christopher Eccleston

Car Your You

Very rarely will you listen to the radio in a judgmental way, the way you'll watch telly.

Clare Balding

Men You Will

It takes time and energy, and if I'm working, then I'd rather flop in front of the telly than put on a tiny dress and work out how to get myself to God knows where. I mean, lazy some would call it.

Daisy Donovan

I think if you've got a good idea it will stand out in one of the different mediums. For example, something might happen to me today and it could be something to talk about tomorrow on the radio, or I can write about it, or perhaps it will be best suited to telly.

Danny Wallace

Telly and films has been my thing, not necessarily by choice, and if the right piece of theatre came along, I would jump at it.

Darren Boyd

I was very small, about 3 or 4 I think, and just wanted to be the people on telly telling these wonderful stories. Obviously the idea grew and matured with me but I can't ever remember wanting to do anything else. I've just sort of taken it for granted all my life that that was what I would do.

David Tennant

Turn up your radio. Watch lots of telly and eat loads of choc. Feel guilty. Stay up all night. Learn everything in six hours that has taken you two years to compile. That's how I did it.

Dawn French

I watch schlock telly. Like the 'Kardashians.' I love it. It's my guilty pleasure.

Dawn French

Normally, when my stuff's on the telly, I don't watch my own bits.

Dean-Charles Chapman

We were pushing the boundaries a bit of Saturday morning telly and trying new things.

Declan Donnelly

Saturday mornings, you've got three hours of live telly and it's really forgiving.

Declan Donnelly

The thing that I miss more than anything is doing Saturday morning telly. It was the best, best, best three years.

Declan Donnelly

There were no prototypes for me - the telly was full of little blonde juveniles.

Diana Rigg

In the old days, a star was someone up there - you know, Greta Garbo - but a telly star was somebody you could approach.

Diana Rigg

I might get a break again, and I might get back on telly. If I don't, I'll just keep doing stand-up and doing the best gigs I can.

Dominic Holland

When I was a little boy, I was fascinated by the way my dad used to laugh at the telly, and from a very early age, I had an idea of what was funny and why people laughed.

Dominic Holland

I did a picture 40 years ago with Carroll O'Connor and Telly Savalas, God rest their souls, and Clint Eastwood, called 'Kelly's Heroes,' which we filmed in Yugoslavia for six months.

Don Rickles

I haven't watched telly for years.

Douglas Hodge

I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.

Eddi Reader

I was a latchkey kid. Every afternoon, I would walk home from school, let myself in, make myself a banana buttie, and watch telly until Mum came home.

Eddie the Eagle

I first saw Walter Hill's second film, 'The Driver,' as a teenager, late at night on the BBC, quite possibly sitting too close to the telly. Given that this 1978 slice of neo-noir takes place almost entirely in the dark streets of a deserted downtown L.A., it's really a perfect midnight movie.

Edgar Wright

I constantly think I'll be found out any second. Some of the crazy stuff that goes through your head. Once you've moved on from the scene, that's it: it's going in the telly and there's nowt you can do about it! It's really scary.

Faye Marsay

I don't normally watch myself on the telly.

Frank Bruno

I was never one for just sitting in front of the telly.

Giles Deacon

I am a chef who happens to appear on the telly, that's it.

Gordon Ramsay

I feel that shows like 'Ted' and 'The IT Crowd' are very much more enjoyable watching with friends around a telly.

Graham Linehan

I think all technology should be plug and play. I would say it's easier to set up a blog than it is to change channels on your telly.

Graham Linehan

Where I get bored is when I show up for a shoot and they want me to wear a feather boa. Too obvious a thing for a poof on the telly to do.

Graham Norton

All my interesting stories are from before I was on television. Nothing interesting has happened to me since then. Maybe it's because the most interesting thing in my life is the show and that's on telly.

Graham Norton

I don't watch an awful lot of television. It's a very strange thing, and I don't know a lot of people who work in telly who watch a lot of it.

Greg Davies

Some people are instantly brilliant. The Kenneth Branaghs of this world are ready-formed actors at 23 - he has used his success in lots of different ways - but there are people out there for whom acting is: 'Ooh, I can get on the telly and be famous.'

Harriet Walter

Swimmers do not get a lot of telly time so you are not dealing with a lot of egos.

Helen Skelton