- Wherever I go people still stop me to discuss The Likely Lads. Some even ask me whether I mind talking about it after all these years. If I minded I'd deserve a swift kick because it was a great show and provided my 15 minutes of fame.
- I would love to be friends with him, but he doesn't want to be friends with me. I can't be like Jimmy, I can't be that angry. We're different animals. Now he doesn't want to talk about The Likely Lads at all. He hates it. He thinks it's beneath him. It's not beneath him - it's what made him. Terry was the best part he could ever be offered. That's what he's remembered for. He thinks it affected his career as a great actor. That's the trouble with actors - they get egos.
- Instead of being the Likely Lads, we'd have been the Unlikeliest Granddads. We would have been sitting on a park bench in a pair of grubby grey anoraks, feeding the pigeons and grumping about youngsters.
- [on James Bolam] We were great friends. When my babies were born, his was the first house I went to.
- It's this actor's ego thing - he thinks he is important. Actors aren't important. I'm not important; I have fun. I think Jimmy takes himself very seriously as an actor.
- All the kids were posh and they were the children of actors in the West End of London and I'm just this boy from Bingley, near Bradford, and broad Yorkshire.
- He should let it be repeated on BBC2 or BBC1; to stop other people earning money is cruel.
- Jimmy Bolam's killed it, which is such a pity. I'm very poor, so I have to tour one-man shows because Jimmy has buried The Likely Lads. You have to sign a waiver for them to repeat it, and he stopped it while he did New Tricks. Well, New Tricks has been on so long, and is so repeated, that he must be very wealthy; me, I've just got an overdraft and a mortgage.
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