Ant McPartlin

If you are enjoying yourself its infectious.

In L.A. or New York, we don't fit. I think middle America could relate to us a lot, but we've never been given the opportunity to get out there.

What's annoying is we've launched a lot of shows like 'Pop Idol,' and then it goes to the States, and everything stays the same, yet they change the hosts. 'I'm A Celebrity' has been done twice in America now - but they changed the hosts. 'America's Got Talent,' we don't host - somebody else hosts.

The difference between doing a live show and a sitcom is that a sitcom can live on. If you do it well, it can leave a legacy, whereas most of our live work never gets repeated because it's final, it's done, you start again.

Not bipolar, but I lean towards manicness and then lowness.

I think I'm quite up and down, I'm quite hyper. Either hyper up or down.

I'm just one of those people who happens to be all or nothing. A lot of people can be middle. I'm not.

Life just swallowed me up for a few years.

We struggle so much with wanting everybody to like us, we weaken ourselves at times.

I do believe that nurture has a great deal to do with how you end up as a human being.

To feel love and give love - it's the greatest feeling there is.

I think if you are having fun the audience will have fun too.

We learnt a lot from doing Panto, actually back when we were still doing 'SMTV: Live.' We learnt how far we could push things and the show was all the better for that. I think that taught us you really have to know your audience because you could see how they would react to things.

I think you can show off too much, and that would have been such a no-no from me growing up.

We have a show very early on called 'Slap Bang' on a Saturday night and it didn't work. It started off peak time and started getting earlier and earlier in the schedule. I think that that taught us you have to adapt.

Some people are very cynical about it, but we're not trying to replace Bob and Terry.

We're never really spotted falling out of nightclubs. We don't go to places where there are photographers hanging out.

We never wanted to move to a niche slot at 11 at night so that we could be a lot cleverer and bluer. We just want to do those big light-entertainment shows we loved as kids.

It's a very hard thing to explain when we sit with writers on our shows. But then if they show us a sketch, instinctively we'd know who we'd play.

My dad left the family when I was about 10 and I've seen him sporadically over the years.

If you grow up poor, I'm not sure you ever shake that off.

We love 'I'm a Celebrity,' 'Britain's Got Talent,' 'Saturday Night Takeway,' but they're all live shows.

I'm just known as Ant and Dec, even when I'm on my own.

I suffer really badly with insomnia.

Obviously, the BBC is funded by licence-payers. If you are paying for a TV licence, when you see what people are paid, then you know you're funding that.

You shouldn't worry who gets the funny line, just that you're being funny as a double act. With us, it flips all the time. There's no real straight man or funny man.

We always hark back to what we used to love watching as kids: 'Noel's House Party,' 'Don't Forget Your Toothbrush,' shows that had that live excitement about them. You never knew what was going to happen and I found that really engaging.

Entertainment is about having a blast.

My dad and I didn't speak for a long time, but we're talking again now, which is great.

To be fair, life is too short. There is no point holding grudges or anything like that.

Katie Hopkins was in 'I'm A Celebrity' but you wouldn't really remember her doing it, as she didn't really shine.

I remember Phillip Schofield saying to us, just before we started 'SMTV: Live'... 'It will be the best fun you will ever have on telly.'You know what the innocence and freedom we got on that show you don't get anywhere else. We could just mess about.

If it wasn't for 'Byker Grove' we wouldn't be where we are today.

The thing about 'CD:U.K.' was, because the show started quite small with small viewing figures and it built and built, the bigger the figures got, the better and bigger the pop star you got.

With 'SMTV' it was a very brave decision by ITV to commission it for a year. It was so awful to start with and the ratings were so low to start with we might never have made it past the first six months.

We're just grateful, we learn to be in moment and enjoy what we're doing.

I'm kind of an all-round good guy.

Dec's punctuality leaves a lot to be desired.

I'd love to be able to play the piano.

For a double act to work, you shouldn't have egos.

Among double acts, Morecambe and Wise are number one, definitely.

When our characters in 'Byker Grove,' PJ and Duncan, shared a storyline, we became really close. We'd go out to the pictures, stay at each other's houses, have parties when family members were away.

Just saying I'd like to do a sitcom is poison words, isn't it?

When you're bored, it doesn't necessarily mean the audience is bored.

I always read interviews with people and they say I was a right joker at school, I was a right loner at school - but I was just kind of average.

People are always telling me to cheer up.

Going back to school, having done 'Byker Grove' and being on the telly when you're 13, all the kids are very jealous and it can make it a quite hostile environment.

I was one of four blokes that done drama at my school.

I loved my Nintendo 64 growing up.

We love the 'Britain's Got Talent' process, we love interacting and responding with the public, it's just good fun.