Words matter. These are the best Graham Norton Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I don’t think anyone wants to be gay.
If it was possible for me to adopt, I probably would, but no one’s going to let me adopt.
I always say I’d rather be miserable by myself than unhappy in a relationship.
Britain’s such a twisted, weird little place.
It’s lovely to get one successful show – the chances of finding a second one are not so hot.
All these people I interview are worth ten times what I’m worth.
My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me.
The BBC will always be attacked by whoever is in government. It is that George Bush thing of ‘If you’re not with us you are against us.’
A comedian’s a comedian. They’re a very kind of cynical bunch. I guess that’s why I like them.
I am camp. Lots of gay men can’t cope with their campness. They are in denial about it.
All my interesting stories are from before I was on television. Nothing interesting has happened to me since then. Maybe it’s because the most interesting thing in my life is the show and that’s on telly.
You don’t want money to make you a social freak where you can only hang out with rich people.
I don’t think you should have to try to be nice, I think most people are nice. I think being cheerful and nice is just a politeness.
Basically, I’m a really bad interviewer. I love meeting celebrities, but then I get a bit bored. Once you meet them you thing, ‘really, what an ordinary person’.
All my day is spent dealing with other people. When I come home I like it to be empty. The presence of others in my house kind of annoys me. I love coming home and shutting the doors. I feel brain dead. I’m relatively available, but not to live with.
An awful lot of female celebrities are very beautiful whereas a lot of male celebrities are not so hot.
I have nothing to say about my childhood. It was a perfectly pleasant upbringing – it’s not like it was unhappy or anything.
It’s amazing how I can just ramble on for hours, isn’t it? And so unentertaining or uninteresting. But I can ramble on for hours. It’s a sort of terrible gift, isn’t it?
If you’d told the young Graham Norton that I’d one day have this amount of money, I’d have assumed it would have come from a lottery win.
You don’t want to be hard to look at. Plain very good, hard to look at bad. The plain shall inherit the earth; time is our friend.
Where I get bored is when I show up for a shoot and they want me to wear a feather boa. Too obvious a thing for a poof on the telly to do.
I’m actually quite self-sufficient, so it might look as if there isn’t room for anyone in my life. That isn’t entirely the case.
I’ve so exceeded what I ever wanted to do.
I do get pleasure from very inconsequential things, like shopping for clothes.
My life could have been so grim… really, really grim.
