"Sir Michael Parkinson", is an English broadcaster, journalist and author. He is best known for presenting his long-running television talk show, Parkinson (chat show)/Parkinson, from 1971 to 1982 and from 1998 to 2007, as well as other talk shows and programmes both in the UK and internationally. He is also known as a radio broadcaster. He has been described by The Guardian as "the great British talkshow host".

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[But yesterday's tributes painted a portrait of a quiet, private man who never grew accustomed to the limelight that accompanied his success.] He was very shy, ... A man uneasy with the fame that came with the job. A man who liked to observe in the shade. He reminded me of Alec Guinness in that sense. But, my word, when he stood centre stage you'd better watch him.

If the music industry has decided I'm influential, then that's their business, ... They tell me that's the case, but I think it would ruin an innocent mind if I were aware of that.

I think life without Coronation Street would be unthinkable. It's part of all our lives.

He's our biggest repository of useless knowledge. National Icon, National Treasure, and National Dustbin.

I finish every book I start.

I've been trying to get sober for the last four years, and I keep falling off and I keep getting back on.

For me personally it is because I get an awful amount of success and I don't think I deserve it and then I want to sabotage it.

He was very shy, a man uneasy with the fame that came with the job.

A bloody good comedian and a lovely man.