Trisha Goddard Quotes

There is a learning quality in all of our shows.

If you go to most third world countries, the older woman dispenses advice to the arguing couple while other members of the family, or even the village, sit around and listen. It is no big deal.

I`ll get into a pattern where I start sleeping only between 12 and 3.30, and go for weeks like that.

I am an addictive personality.

I speak to people who have been through so much more.

I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts.

We see the people that have got stars in their eyes, but if you`ve really got what it takes, you can get from, say the beginnings, to the top in about five years.

I can be horrifically single-minded.

I`m pushing the positive mental health message in a very populist way; some people just don`t get that or feel uncomfortable with it.

I don`t do game shows.

If you are in the job for glamour, you`re in for the shock of your life. The media is a huge shark pool.

I am a smiling depressive.

Most of my peers in television seem to be from a different planet. I don`t hang out with any of them.

I go mad without a challenge. I need challenges. At the moment, we`re in the final stages of writing a book-The Family Survival Guide.

I had the shakes, I had double vision, I had convulsions. But I didn`t want to be on antidepressants while I was doing the show.

Somebody like me wouldn`t have gone on to the Trisha show because I already had a public profile.

Psychiatrists always say, Oh, we`re very professional. I use exercise as my medication.

I work very hard to keep on an even keel as far as alcohol is concerned.

I suggest that instead of criticising us, the establishment has a bloody good look at itself.

It was only literally hours after the wedding when he felt he didn`t have to keep up the facade.

Why don`t you compare me to Sally Jessy Raphael?

I`ve had a lot of cognitive behavioural therapy, and am having a family now.

I suppose in London they all drink from the same watering holes.

I`ll get up in the morning while they`ve all got hangovers and run my 5 miles. But the women who do run are usually 10 years younger than me and they`re really obsessed about running. That`s all they do. They`re really boring.

I know I can get to the stage where I`m drinking a lot. I tend to be rotten and groggy all day and hanging out for the next drink and five o`clock, ping! I have to just stop.

Even my daughters know when I`m flipping.

I guess it`s the age group of students; You are questioning life. Then there are those who actually see their problems reflected in it.

Because my father was a psychiatric nurse, I know my way around the system.

Daddy loves you, but he smacks you, and he can shout at you and smash things, but Daddy still loves you. So when you get into a relationship with someone who does all of that, why would it be unusual?

I find myself thinking: Oh God, now what? I always have to have a new plan, otherwise I get very, very bored.

It is ridiculous that somebody picks up the phone and calls somebody they see on television. Why don`t they call somebody in their area? Don`t they know about that?