Quotes from Graham Norton

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.

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.

I am very quick to judge.

I don't think anyone wants to be gay.

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

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 think the word is adult!

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.

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

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

Tolerance is forced on people in London.

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

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.

The only time I took Ecstacy was years and years ago. It was absolutely amazing.

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!'

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'.

I am really bad at actually interviewing people.

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!

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 bet Maurice Gibb's heart monitor was singing the tune of Stayin' Alive.

Britain's such a twisted, weird little place.

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

Straight men just can't imagine the bliss of being in a relationship with someone who finds farting as funny as they do.

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.