Graham Norton

“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?”

“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 am camp. Lots of gay men can't cope with their campness. They are in denial about it.”

“Do I have more depth than I'm given credit for? No!”

“My mobile rang around lunchtime one day, and it was George Michael. He wanted to come in on Friday. We were like, 'okay, if that's what you want'. And he was a very good guest. That's a real exception to the rule.”

“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.”

“I am very quick to judge.”

“Tolerance is forced on people in London.”

“ההורים שלי הם ממעמד הפועלים, וכמו הורים ממעמד הפועלים הם הוציאו הון על חינוך כדי שיהיה לי טוב יותר.”

“כסף זה דבר וולגרי ואני לא מתעסק איתו, בשביל זה יש לי סוכן.”

“כל היום אני עם אנשים אחרים. כשאני חוזר לבית אני מעדיף שהוא יהיה ריק. אני אוהב לבוא הביתה ולסגור את הדלתות.”

“זה נשמע שטחי, אבל לזמן קצר, כל אדם מהרחוב יכול להיות מרתק.”

“בדרך כלל אני מזמין לתוכנית שלי סלבריטאים אהובים עליי אישית, שמתחשק לי להיפגש איתם ולפטפט. עד היום כמעט לא התאכזבתי מהאורחים שלי.”

“I have nothing to say about my childhood. It was a perfectly pleasant upbringing - it's not like it was unhappy or anything.”

“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.'”

“Well, certainly I think American television is - that's proper TV.”

“I don't think I've got bad taste. I've got no taste.”

“The BBC is a victim of its own independence.”

“In terms of language, yeah we get bleeped and blurred and things, but in terms of content, I would probably say we're getting away with more here than we could get away with in Britain. And that surprised us so much!”

“My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living.”