Graham Norton Quotations

It's lovely to get one successful show - the chances of finding a second one are not so hot.

Occasionally the state of the planet can knock me off my perky perch.

My life could have been so grim really, really grim.

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!'

You don't want money to make you a social freak where you can only hang out with rich people.

It sounds deeply shallow, but for brief spells every member of the public can be fascinating.

If it was possible for me to adopt, I probably would, but no one's going to let me adopt.

The higher your profile becomes, the more aware you are that people out there might hate you.

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.

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