Quotes

I've got a great chat-up line, "Would you like to be 1,001?"

I had rehearsals up in Manchester from Monday to Friday. The opportunity was there. There were plenty of girls around. I shouldn't have done it. I didn't have any control over my own sex drive. I didn't have the strength to control it.

I'm just Ken's caretaker. You could say I'm having two incarnations, two for the price of one.

There's a very complex situation here that was stirred up by the Jimmy Savile business. Paedophilia is absolutely horrendous, paedophiles should be sought out, rooted out and dealt with. But there's a fringe here. There's a fringe of people, particularly pop singers, they have these groupies, these girls, who come, they're sexually active, sexually mature, they don't ask for their birth certificate. They don't know what age they may be but they're certainly not grooming them and exploiting them. But they can be caught in this trap. These people are instantly stigmatized. Some will be innocent, some will not. But until such time as it's proven, there should be anonymity for both.

If someone has done something wrong, the law will take its course. But even so, all of us, whether they're proven guilty or not, we should not be judgemental about anybody, ever. We shouldn't go around condemning, unforgiving. We should always be totally forgiving about everything.

Everything that happens to us is being a result of what we have been in previous lives.

I'm very fond of Ken but I am also mainly William Roache. And I am here to live my life.

If you think about something, you bring it about.

[on Coronation Street (1960)] While I can do it and while they want me, I will be there.

[on his 2013 trial] In these situations there are no winners, and I think we should all be much kinder to ourselves.

[on being awarded an OBE] I can't tell you how proud I am! Coronation Street (1960) has given me so much in life and I absolutely love the programme and everyone who works on the show.