A biography for Graham Nortonhasn’t been written yet.
“Those years between drama school and getting onto the stand-up circuit were pretty lean.”
“You don't want money to make you a social freak where you can only hang out with rich people.”
“The higher your profile becomes, the more aware you are that people out there might hate you.”
“I loved Lucille Ball growing up.”
“It sounds deeply shallow, but for brief spells every member of the public can be fascinating.”
“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.”
“Because society places a value on masculinity, gay men aspire to it. If you go to a gay club and the doorman says, 'You do realise this is a gay club, don't you lads?' you get all excited because you think, 'Wow, he thought I was straight!'”
“I think the word is adult!”
“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'.”
“Britain's such a twisted, weird little place.”
“The people I want are very famous and very rich, and all I can offer them is a bit of exposure on TV and a bit of cash, so it's a miracle we get any guests at all. But we have been very lucky.”
“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.”
“It's lovely to get one successful show - the chances of finding a second one are not so hot.”
“A comedian's a comedian. They're a very kind of cynical bunch. I guess that's why I like them.”
“An awful lot of female celebrities are very beautiful whereas a lot of male celebrities are not so hot.”
“One of the great things about being gay and out is that the papers couldn't care less about your love life.”
“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.”
“I'd like to retire at 50 but I don't want to sell papers in the middle of London on a Zimmer.”
“Forty freaked me out. I didn't see it coming. My life was in a state of chaos - I was moving jobs and moving house - and it just hit me like a ton of bricks.”