Trisha Goddard Quotes

“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?”

— Trisha Goddard

“I am an addictive personality.”

— Trisha Goddard

Why don't you compare me to Sally Jessy Raphael?

— Trisha Goddard

“It was only literally hours after the wedding when he felt he didn't have to keep up the facade.”

— Trisha Goddard

“I am a smiling depressive.”

— Trisha Goddard

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

— Trisha Goddard

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

— Trisha Goddard

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

— Trisha Goddard

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

— Trisha Goddard

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

— Trisha Goddard

“Somebody like me wouldn't have gone on to the Trisha show because I already had a public profile.”

— Trisha Goddard

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.

— Trisha Goddard

“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.”

— Trisha Goddard

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

— Trisha Goddard

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

— Trisha Goddard

“Most of my peers in television seem to be from a different planet. I don't hang out with any of them.”

— Trisha Goddard

“There is a learning quality in all of our shows.”

— Trisha Goddard

“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?”

— Trisha Goddard

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

— Trisha Goddard

I can be horrifically single-minded.

— Trisha Goddard

“I don't do game shows.”

— Trisha Goddard

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

— Trisha Goddard

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

— Trisha Goddard

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

— Trisha Goddard

“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.”

— Trisha Goddard

“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.”

— Trisha Goddard

“I was in danger of having my children taken away from me when I needed five weeks in psychiatric care ... There is the smiling depressive which is the biggest time bomb and when they go they usually go with a bang, which was me ...”

— Trisha Goddard

“Normal is a cycle on the washing machine. There is no such thing when it comes to human beings.”

— Trisha Goddard

“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.”

— Trisha Goddard

“You should never ever ever have somebody else who is the foundation of your life. You need to be the foundation of your own sh*t.”

— Trisha Goddard