Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" The higher your profile becomes, the more aware you are that people out there might hate you. "
Graham Norton
Hate
People
Profile
Related Quotes:
" Occasionally the state of the planet can knock me off my perky perch. "
Graham Norton
Perky
Planet
State
" 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. "
Graham Norton
Me
Life
Moving
" I was a failed actor but I still wanted to show off, so I ended up doing live comedy. "
Graham Norton
Live
Doing
Show
" I have nothing to say about my childhood. It was a perfectly pleasant upbringing - it's not like it was unhappy or anything. "
Graham Norton
Unhappy
Childhood
Like
" Tolerance is forced on people in London. "
Graham Norton
Forced
London
People
" Britain's such a twisted, weird little place. "
Graham Norton
Place
Weird
Britain
" My life could have been so grim... really, really grim. "
Graham Norton
Could
Life
My Life
" 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? "
Graham Norton
Gift
Terrible
Just
" I've heard other gay people say when they were growing up they felt 'foreign.' Growing up, I was able to label these feelings as: 'I'm a Protestant.' It wasn't until I left, I thought: 'Oh, those weren't Protestant feelings.' "
Graham Norton
Thought
Gay
People
" Do I have more depth than I'm given credit for? No! "
Graham Norton
Depth
Given
More
" Those years between drama school and getting onto the stand-up circuit were pretty lean. "
Graham Norton
Drama
Pretty
Years
" 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
Say
Blurred
Content
" I think the word is adult! "
Graham Norton
I Think
Think
Word
" I don't think anyone wants to be gay. "
Graham Norton
Wants
Think
Gay
" I'm often dating people, but I don't say it because you sort of know it won't last long. "
Graham Norton
Long
People
You
" An awful lot of female celebrities are very beautiful whereas a lot of male celebrities are not so hot. "
Graham Norton
Awful
Very
Lot
" A comedian's a comedian. They're a very kind of cynical bunch. I guess that's why I like them. "
Graham Norton
Kind
Why
Bunch
" 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. "
Graham Norton
Good
Living
Success
" One of the great things about being gay and out is that the papers couldn't care less about your love life. "
Graham Norton
Love Life
Love
Life
" 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'. "
Graham Norton
Love
Person
You
" I don't think I've got bad taste. I've got no taste. "
Graham Norton
Bad Taste
Think
Taste
" 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
" 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. "
Graham Norton
You
Be Nice
Nice
" I loved Lucille Ball growing up. "
Graham Norton
Loved
Ball
Growing Up
" 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
" I am really bad at actually interviewing people. "
Graham Norton
People
Really
Bad
" The only people who are desperate to go on the show are people we're desperate not to have on the show. "
Graham Norton
People
Desperate
Show
" 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
" Well, certainly I think American television is - that's proper TV. "
Graham Norton
Television
Well
American
" I bet Maurice Gibb's heart monitor was singing the tune of Stayin' Alive. "
Graham Norton
Singing
Alive
Heart