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Daily Inspiration Quote by Trisha Goddard

"Most of my peers in television seem to be from a different planet. I don't hang out with any of them"

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There is a neat bit of stagecraft in calling your own industry extraterrestrial: it’s funny, blunt, and just insulting enough to sound honest. Trisha Goddard isn’t merely saying she’s private. She’s framing television culture as an ecosystem with its own gravity, atmosphere, and species rules - and implying she never evolved to breathe that air.

The first sentence (“from a different planet”) does two jobs at once. It establishes distance and superiority without the needy performative purity of “I’m not like other celebrities.” Aliens aren’t just different; they’re unknowable, possibly hostile, definitely not your people. The second sentence sharpens it into a boundary: not “I don’t often hang out,” but “I don’t hang out with any of them.” The absolutism reads as self-protection, a refusal to participate in the soft bribery of the TV world: networking disguised as friendship, access traded for intimacy, gossip as currency.

Context matters because Goddard’s public persona has always been built on directness and control - the authoritative host energy that keeps chaos watchable. In that light, the quote is less a tantrum than brand maintenance. If your job is to mediate other people’s mess on camera, you can’t afford to look enmeshed in your own. The subtext is simple: fame is not community, and proximity to the “scene” comes with a price she’s unwilling to pay.

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Goddard, Trisha. (2026, January 16). Most of my peers in television seem to be from a different planet. I don't hang out with any of them. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/most-of-my-peers-in-television-seem-to-be-from-a-107861/

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Goddard, Trisha. "Most of my peers in television seem to be from a different planet. I don't hang out with any of them." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/most-of-my-peers-in-television-seem-to-be-from-a-107861/.

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"Most of my peers in television seem to be from a different planet. I don't hang out with any of them." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/most-of-my-peers-in-television-seem-to-be-from-a-107861/. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.

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Trisha Goddard (born December 1, 1957) is a Entertainer from England.

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