Piers Morgan Quotes

[On journalism] It is full of lying, cheating, drunken, cocaine-sniffing, unethical people. It's a wonderful profession.

There is a certain advantage to the British accent. I do notice that Americans love it; they think that we Brits are smarter than perhaps we are.

Right, now all you have to do – and I know it's hard because celebrities don't like doing anything for themselves – is actually change your security number.

I've always made it a strict rule in life to ingratiate myself with three categories of people: newspaper owners, potential newspaper owners and billionaires.
This is a despicablle, shameless but often successful modus operandi that hasn't to date done me much harm.

He thinks it’s OK to spout a load of venomous, hateful things, which he then tries to back up with statistics. I really, really don't like Piers Morgan [...] And also, through that whole hacking thing, he got away with murder. I just think he’s a bit of a heinous human being.

The liberals get what they want, which is a humorless void where nothing happens, where no one dare do anything, or laugh about anything, or behave in any way that doesn't suit their rigid way of leading a life. No thanks.

I like waging feuds [...] They get me going and make me perform better. I don't start them but I always finish them.

[As editor of the Bizarre feature in The Sun newspaper] I became the Friend of the Stars, a rampant egomaniac, pictured all the time with famous people - Madonna, Stallone, Bowie, Paul McCartney, hundreds of them. It was shameless, as they didn't know me from Adam. The Sun had had a bad time, after losing an action with Elton John, but this was harmless and funny. The publicity people from the record companies were all in on the joke.

I had more complaints from people who wanted to be in who weren't than from those who were in. Given that there was a lot of score-settling, I was surprised no one took me on, and disappointed actually.

There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence or politics. I don't come from that school. I certainly appreciate those kinds of stories. I've certainly devoted a lot of time on my show to them. But I also have a much broader spectrum of what I think is interesting, relevant, current or newsworthy.