David Frost Quotes

Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.

- David Frost

Over the last half century the television interview has given us some of TV's most heart-stopping and memorable moments. On the surface it is a simple format - two people sitting across from one another having a conversation. But underneath it is often a power struggle - a battle for the psychological advantage.

- David Frost

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

- David Frost

Having one child makes you a parent; having two, you are a referee.

- David Frost

You often see politicians who try to put on a different persona; they think they should be more jolly or serious. Invariably, the persona they choose is worse than their own.

- David Frost

Being upbeat is the key to life.

- David Frost

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.

- David Frost

If you don't have the smoking gun, then it's pointless to hector interviewees. Because you just shut people up instead of opening them up.

- David Frost

The most important advice you can give anyone about to appear on TV is incredibly prosaic - be yourself.

- David Frost

Vote Labor, and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative, and you can live in them.

- David Frost

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

- David Frost

Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way.

- David Frost