Famous Quotes & Sayings

Davina played in a very challenging slot. It's right for BBC One to take risks and I'm glad we did it. At the moment we don't have any plans to bring Davina back but we remain committed to working with Davina McCall on a long term basis.

ITV will now leapfrog the BBC and Sky with this new partnership.

Armando Iannucci

There is still an element of the BBC that feels it is somehow wrong, or it will be open to criticism, if it makes more money.

I'd love to play a villain in BBC drama 'Sherlock' - some sort of evil, slinky blonde would be right up my street.

Terry Wogan

I've always had an unsentimental view. I don't think the BBC is my auntie. I worked there for years, and you learn that they don't love you for yourself. They'll use you as long as you're popular. You shouldn't wait until it starts to wane. It can sometimes end badly.

They had their moment in the tsunami coverage, when the BBC and other (established media) opened their websites to them.

Ridley Scott

I come out of TV. I come out of live television, BBC drama: that's where I started first as a designer, then a director. Then I went independent TV, then television advertising.

Jeremy Hunt

I don't think the BBC supporting digital switchover is top slicing. Top slicing is putting the license fee up for grabs for other broadcasters to bid for.

Gerald Scarfe

I simply got a phone call one day saying that Roger and Nick had both seen this on BBC Television and thought that they would like to meet me.

Tony Blair -- perhaps I shouldn't repeat this conversation -- told me yesterday that he was in Delhi last week. And he turned on the BBC world service to see what was happening in New Orleans,

Content 360 was a great success in helping the BBC to engage with the wealth of talent from the international new media industry. Congratulations to all those who took part. The winners were those proposals which were innovative in a way that can help the BBC deliver the very best quality services to our audience.

Contrary to any rumours I have not sold my story. I am going to do an interview with the BBC for which I will receive no payment.

Stephen Frears

I never thought I was very good at developing material. I grew up at the BBC where they sent you scripts.

David Archuleta

Before 'American Idol' and all this stuff, I was obsessed with music charts, and I used to go online to find out what was popular in other countries. I'd log on to the BBC website, and that's how I found out about artists like Natasha Bedingfield, Daniel Bedingfield and Take That.

Stephen Merchant

People think all fame is the same, but being on BBC Two from time to time does not make you Warren Beatty. I honestly can't impress that upon people enough.

E. P. Thompson

The targets are tough because much of the BBC is pretty lean

The things that have been really successful at BBC are the things that seem to relate better to the students there.

Peter Greene

There's big fear. People are selling because they don't know what's going to happen. The news out of the BBC this morning that Iraq is getting ready for chemical warfare is a big part of it.