Quotes from Trevor McDonald

The thing about television is that you can't fake it. Your sense of discovery must be genuine; you can't pretend to be surprised.

I don't know what pressures there are these days.

How can you interview somebody about something fairly technical if you start on the wrong foot by not even knowing his name?

Life is so short, it seems careless not to use it all.

I am actually a terrible coward. Fear is a constant fact of my life.

I love living in London.

I can't think of any sentiment which is finer than being in a position to give people something they like. I love giving, I am rather embarrassed at receiving.

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

To pretend you don't feel a certain strangeness after living in England for 40 years is a fallacy.

Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.

I believe that one can aspire to as much as one wants to.