Quotes from Bradley Walsh

I want to try to help shift perceptions people may have of me as an actor.

I love pirates, and I'm a big fan of the Johnny Depp films.

I like Hawaiian pizza.

All I ever wanted to do was play football. I was never one for revising, and I only left school with three O Levels.

If I'm doing a job, I'll give it 100%, and that job gets my absolute focus, and everything else goes to the side. Then, that job is finished, I'll concentrate on the next job.

I was earning a living. I was getting into more acting, then 'Coronation Street' came along, and it was the chance of a lifetime.

'Law & Order' is a six-month shoot. Everything has to be crammed in. I had so much fun, but it wasn't a holiday. We had seriously long days, and we'd finish at 8 P.M. and start again at 7 A.M. We were doing six-day weeks, which sometimes tripped onto the seventh. But I loved it all.

I'm pretty laid back.

On 'The Chase,' I don't know what questions are going to appear, so they deliberately try and catch me out.

You can't give up. If you set yourself a target, you've got to keep on until you achieve it. It's a matter of having pride in yourself.

Doing 'SunTrap' after 'The Chase' is dipping into something different. That's the whole basis of what I wanted to do with my career. I didn't want to do the same thing all the time.

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

Normally, if I've got an audition, I'm punctual, I've learnt my lines, and I'll go looking smart.

I used to watch 'Doctor Who' as a child with William Hartnell and Pat Troughton in the black-and-white days, so being cast is brilliant.

I only got into show business because I quit football.

The first real gig I went to was Randy Crawford in 1980. Seeing a big star like that was just fantastic.

A lot of comics make good actors. Actors make bad comics. They can't do it the other way round.

I can't listen to rap music; it's not my thing. They say that they're the modern poets: of course they are, but it's not for me.

People don't realise I have seriously bad blepharitis.

Time travel is a wonderful thing, isn't it?

My goodness, what a blast it is filming 'Woody.'

I don't want to do the same thing all the time, and I was thrilled to bits to do a BBC comedy. It's the home of British comedy.

Michael Kitchen is my favourite actor. We were at the same table at an awards once, and I was so thrilled, I had to go and sit next to him... he's mesmeric.

I reckon there could be an entire 'It'll Be Alright On The Night' programme dedicated to me on 'The Chase.'