Top 73 Quotes by Louis Theroux

Not counting the brand of Sunni Islam practised by the so-called Islamic State, there is probably no religion in the world that comes in for more flak than Scientology.

I've always seen TV as... it didn't occupy the same rarefied space as literature, but it's art you can use day to day. I've never been hung up on where it figures in the hierarchy of learning.

My guilty fear is that what I'm doing, probably anyone could do. And that I just got a lot of lucky breaks.

The thing is, I have never been that confident, and, um, I have a lot of self-doubt, and I had never - I don't think I ever would have consciously chosen to be a television presenter.

I have been to a few A-list parties, but not massively. It's not my life, but it's fun dipping into it.

I think what I'm good at is getting to know people and trying to build a relationship over a few weeks and trying to get to the truth.

Although my dad's a writer, we grew up in a telly-watching household. I never found him disparaging about television.

I think I have a slight fear of intimacy.

When interviews are too cosy, I don't enjoy them.

Arguably, there's an emotional side of life that I'm not always completely plugged into.