Quotes from Ant McPartlin

Some people are very cynical about it, but we're not trying to replace Bob and Terry.

Our first flat, in South-West London, was a pig-sty. Dec couldn't even cook baked beans. We were like 'Men Behaving Badly.'

Obviously, the BBC is funded by licence-payers. If you are paying for a TV licence, when you see what people are paid, then you know you're funding that.

I'm kind of an all-round good guy.

Among double acts, Morecambe and Wise are number one, definitely.

It was never really an ambition of ours to crack the States. Things happen and people ask you to do stuff, but we never sat there and said, 'Oh, my God, we must break America!'

In my job, having what they call 'popcorn thinking' is good because it means you can jump from one thing to another. Professionally it's brilliant. Personally I'm all over the place.

With 'SMTV' it was a very brave decision by ITV to commission it for a year. It was so awful to start with and the ratings were so low to start with we might never have made it past the first six months.

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.

To feel love and give love - it's the greatest feeling there is.

If it wasn't for 'Byker Grove' we wouldn't be where we are today.

Obviously there's some kind of life elsewhere. I don't know whether it would look like anything we recognise but I do believe in aliens.

I think if you are having fun the audience will have fun too.

Bake Off' will be a hit in Channel 4 terms but I don't think it will ever reach the heights it has on the BBC just because it won't. I love the show I am a big fan of the show, I think it is great.

If either of us really desperately wanted to do anything on our own it wouldn't be a problem. But we think of projects that involve the two of us. We actually like working together. It's what we do.

There's this working-class guilt - you don't want to be flashy.

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 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.

Katie Hopkins was in 'I'm A Celebrity' but you wouldn't really remember her doing it, as she didn't really shine.

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.

You can't go through what I've been through without being humbled.

I would say I've definitely been humbled for the better.

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.

To be fair, life is too short. There is no point holding grudges or anything like that.