Quotes from Declan Donnelly

We honestly felt a bit more at home in the TV studio than we did in the recording studio.

Ant and Dec seemed a natural name for us - it was just how people referred to us, cos we were always together. I've never resented the fact that his name comes first.

It's lovely when you get those awards because it reminds you that the audience are enjoying what you're doing so you keep working hard and never take anything for granted.

I think Ant and I were ambitious because of where we come from. Both of us are from working-class families on council estates in Newcastle.

We toured the world, all over Europe and to the Far East and Australia.

It's funny. I don't really think of us as TV presenters. I think of TV presenters as responsible people who show children what to do with empty fairy liquid bottles. Not a couple of blokes who don't mind telling kids to shut up.

We got sacked for the first time when we were just 18 and you realise that this whole industry is transient and changeable.

We were lucky that when we were making the transition from children's to prime time a lot of other presenters our age shied away from that arena.

We've talked about a sitcom and a comedy drama. It's getting the right project and working with the right people.

We come to Birmingham every January for the 'Britain's Got Talent' auditions and always have a great time.

Running in heels can be treacherous, and don't get me started on fake eyelashes!

I've definitely never said, 'Well, how about that, eh, I'm a national treasure.'

We did 'Friends Like These' on BBC and 'Slap Bang' on ITV which didn't work as well.

Sometimes life has to tell you a little more forcefully: 'Slow down or change direction.'

I love a sneeze.

I love Leon and June and I love 'Gogglebox,' it's a brilliant show.

Cool is just something we've never been.

I might be a natural show-off but being your best mate's best man is a different kettle of fish.

When you're younger you feel more invincible - that nothing is ever going to get you down or beat you. When you get a bit older, you realise the fragility of things, how easy it is to get caught out by things - and Ant did.

I grew up being called Eamonn-Martin-Dermott-Declan because I was the youngest of the boys and Mum would go through all their names first before she got to mine.

I've never massively minded not being cool.

When we were 17, I got my first car, a Mini Metro.

I think obviously there is some kind of life form somewhere else. Whether it looks like the creature in 'Alien Autopsy,' I'm not sure.

We always had one eye on doing Saturday night TV even when we were back doing mornings. That's where we wanted to go to get a bigger audience.