Trisha Goddard Quotes

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 ...

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

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?

I don't do game shows.

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.

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 am an addictive personality.

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

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

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

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?

Not belonging will give you the freedom to follow your dreams instead of the crowd.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

I can be horrifically single-minded.

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

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