Top 45 Fiona Bruce Quotes

Question Time’ had been on my fantasy bucket list for some time. Of all the jobs in broadcasting that’s the job I knew I wanted to do.

I’m very fortunate in the things I’ve done and I’ve worked really hard at them. It’s always ultimately up to the viewers whether they like it or not.

You don’t present a show like ‘Crimewatch’ without developing a real respect for the justice system in this country.

If you work and you want to see your children, something’s got to give and for me, it’s my social life.

Antiques Roadshow’ is a public service. It reflects the nation back to itself, as does ‘Question Time.’

I wouldn’t consider cosmetic surgery.

Antiques Roadshow’ was the first job I had taken since my children were born that took me away from them consistently over a period of time. That was a big adjustment for all of us.

Of course, I’d love to be regarded as a voice of authority.

I’m always disappointed by women who say they prefer working with men. What is that all about? I love working with women, I love the company of women.

Brexit can tend to be a dialogue of the deaf.

This is going to make me sound 100 years old, but I really loved David Cassidy in ‘The Partridge Family.’

My Duke of Edinburgh interview for his 90th in June 2011 was not one of my successes. I knew what to expect: there were some very uncomfortable moments and put-downs, but I think it made for entertaining viewing.

I think the BBC has come a long way in equal pay. I think it’s come the furthest of all in the representation of women on screen.

I still remember watching ‘Antiques Roadshow’ as a child with my parents, on a Sunday night, sitting in our 1970s living room.

I think it’s important to rebel a little bit.

The BBC is a huge part of the nation’s cultural life.

My parents’ set-up was very traditional, whereas that’s not the life I’ve chosen to lead.

I haven’t done Botox. Although there are a few women on screen who do, and if you don’t do it, which I don’t, you look pretty rough by comparison.

My father John taught me about hard work and the importance of manners.

My mum, who died in 2011, was the most loving mother you could ask for. She was very compassionate, always a good listener, and her love was a constant throughout my life. She was very sympathetic, kind and understanding and I think these values can be underrated.

I have a few grey hairs. I dye them. I don’t let them show when I’m reading the news.

The audience is an absolutely critical part of ‘Question Time’ and selecting that audience is a big and very important job every week. What we need to do every week without fail is make the audience politically representative of the picture across the nation.

Age is definitely an issue for women in TV. There comes a point – especially if you’re a woman – when your career just falls off a cliff. I’m not being self-pitying. That’s just the way it is.

When I started presenting I’d get invited to red carpet events and I went to a few premieres. But pretty soon I thought, ‘Life’s too short.’

You can’t beat a good millefeuille, which is basically a posh custard slice. Yum!

Thailand was a revelation to me; the landscapes, the culture, the food and the people.

Really, I’ve been at the BBC too long and have spent too much time out on the road to worry about being judged as a clothes horse.

No matter how beautiful a spot I find myself in, if the food ain’t up to much, I won’t enjoy myself.

When both my parents were unwell I was in that situation that will be very familiar to many women. I had young children in one part of the country, and elderly unwell parents in another. I was in a constant state of guilt. Was I there enough for my mother? Was I there enough for my children?

When I started in news on the ‘Six O’Clock,’ I was 36 and felt very inexperienced.

I think having a healthy distrust of authority is a good thing, within certain parameters, obviously.

The one good thing about jet lag when you fly to the United States is that you wake up so madly early, you can beat everyone else to the big tourist attractions and miss the queues.

I saw ‘The Theory of Everything,’ which I loved, but I’m afraid I hardly ever get to go to the cinema.

Don’t ask me the secret to a good long-term relationship – I have no idea! Honestly, I think it’s just luck.

As an army marches on its stomach, I vacation on mine. And for that reason, among others, I found myself in holiday heaven in Singapore.

There are a million and one things I’d love to get stuck into. Travel, finally getting to spend some time with the family. And I’d love to become a magistrate.

Muscat itself is a mixture of impersonal modern buildings, shopping malls, mosques, traditional souks, tarmac and sand.

If you take over a programme from a longstanding incumbent, not everyone’s going to like it.

I was the first person in my family to go to university so it was quite a big deal for us.

I really like sitting down with my daughter to watch programmes like ‘Call the Midwife,’ ’24 hours in A&E,’ ‘One Born Every Minute’ and ‘Our Girl.’ It’s just the two of us, which is really nice.

I think of myself as a journalist first and foremost.

My own valuation moment: When I started ‘Antiques Roadshow,’ John Benjamin looked at my engagement ring, which is Victorian. I sat there as a visitor would and he dated it, talked me through the stone, which is an opal, and which mine it would have been from.

With two older brothers, I was a tomboy in one sense, but on the other hand I really loved dolls. My brothers weren’t very happy when I nicked their Action Men to play with my dolls and they were appalled when I made them kiss my Barbies.

To me it’s always been a no-brainer. Maybe I’m just simplistic about it, but if you believe in equality of opportunity, and want to champion equality of opportunity, that makes you a feminist.

You don’t have doubts when you get offered ‘Question Time.’ You think, thank you very much.