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" I am camp. Lots of gay men can't cope with their campness. They are in denial about it. "
Graham Norton
Cope
Gay
I Am
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" Straight men just can't imagine the bliss of being in a relationship with someone who finds farting as funny as they do. "
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" 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!' "
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" The only people who are desperate to go on the show are people we're desperate not to have on the show. "
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" 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? "
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Gift
Terrible
Just
" I always say I'd rather be miserable by myself than unhappy in a relationship. "
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Myself
Unhappy
Than
" 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. "
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Interesting
Nothing
My Life
" Britain's such a twisted, weird little place. "
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Place
Weird
Britain
" 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.' "
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Against
Government
Will
" I am really bad at actually interviewing people. "
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People
Really
Bad
" Those years between drama school and getting onto the stand-up circuit were pretty lean. "
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Drama
Pretty
Years
" 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. "
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Good
Living
Success
" I'm often dating people, but I don't say it because you sort of know it won't last long. "
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Long
People
You
" My life could have been so grim... really, really grim. "
Graham Norton
Could
Life
My Life
" One of the great things about being gay and out is that the papers couldn't care less about your love life. "
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Love Life
Love
Life
" If it was possible for me to adopt, I probably would, but no one's going to let me adopt. "
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Going
Adopt
Me
" Occasionally the state of the planet can knock me off my perky perch. "
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Perky
Planet
State
" I have nothing to say about my childhood. It was a perfectly pleasant upbringing - it's not like it was unhappy or anything. "
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Unhappy
Childhood
Like
" Tolerance is forced on people in London. "
Graham Norton
Forced
London
People
" All these people I interview are worth ten times what I'm worth. "
Graham Norton
Times
Worth
Interview
" 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. "
Graham Norton
Money
Young
Lottery
" I do get pleasure from very inconsequential things, like shopping for clothes. "
Graham Norton
Shopping
Get
Clothes
" Well, certainly I think American television is - that's proper TV. "
Graham Norton
Television
Well
American
" I am very quick to judge. "
Graham Norton
Quick
Am
Judge
" It's lovely to get one successful show - the chances of finding a second one are not so hot. "
Graham Norton
Lovely
Hot
Successful
" 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. "
Graham Norton
Bored
Want
Up
" 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. "
Graham Norton
Home
People
Brain
" I've so exceeded what I ever wanted to do. "
Graham Norton
Exceeded
Wanted
Ever
" You don't want money to make you a social freak where you can only hang out with rich people. "
Graham Norton
Rich
Money
Only
" An awful lot of female celebrities are very beautiful whereas a lot of male celebrities are not so hot. "
Graham Norton
Awful
Very
Lot
" 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! "
Graham Norton
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