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Graham Norton [1963-0] Irish

Rank: 101
Celebrity, Television presenter

Graham William Walker, better known by his stage name Graham Norton, is an Irish television and radio presenter, comedian, and actor. He is a five-time BAFTA TV Award winner for his comedy chat show The Graham Norton Show. Previously shown on BBC Two, it took the prestigious Friday night slot on BBC One from Jonathan Ross in 2010.

Relationship, Dating, Famous, Home, Independence, Society

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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.		101
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!'	Society	102
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.	Home	103
I always say I'd rather be miserable by myself than unhappy in a relationship.	Relationship	104
I am camp. Lots of gay men can't cope with their campness. They are in denial about it.		105
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.		106
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.		107
I don't think I've got bad taste. I've got no taste.		108
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'.		109
The only people who are desperate to go on the show are people we're desperate not to have on the show.		110
Do I have more depth than I'm given credit for? No!		111
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.		112
I do get pleasure from very inconsequential things, like shopping for clothes.		113
I loved Lucille Ball growing up.		114
Straight men just can't imagine the bliss of being in a relationship with someone who finds farting as funny as they do.	Relationship	115
The higher your profile becomes, the more aware you are that people out there might hate you.		116
I was a failed actor but I still wanted to show off, so I ended up doing live comedy.		117
My mobile rang around lunchtime one day, and it was George Michael. He wanted to come in on Friday. We were like, 'okay, if that's what you want'. And he was a very good guest. That's a real exception to the rule.		118
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.	Famous	119
A comedian's a comedian. They're a very kind of cynical bunch. I guess that's why I like them.		120
Britain's such a twisted, weird little place.		121
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.		122
I have nothing to say about my childhood. It was a perfectly pleasant upbringing - it's not like it was unhappy or anything.		123
I've so exceeded what I ever wanted to do.		124
Some people think they're depressed and they go to the doctor and want pills. And you just think: 'You hate where you live, you've lost your job, your boyfriend has dumped you, could all this be why you're depressed?'		125
I think the word is adult!		126
Occasionally the state of the planet can knock me off my perky perch.		201
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.		202
My life could have been so grim... really, really grim.		203
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.'		204
Tolerance is forced on people in London.		205
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?		206
One of the great things about being gay and out is that the papers couldn't care less about your love life.		207
Those years between drama school and getting onto the stand-up circuit were pretty lean.		208
I bet Maurice Gibb's heart monitor was singing the tune of Stayin' Alive.		209
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!		210
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.		211
I am very quick to judge.		212
I spent a long time working in restaurants and making no money. It was very character-building, but I think it could have been built in a shorter time.		213
All these people I interview are worth ten times what I'm worth.		214
If it was possible for me to adopt, I probably would, but no one's going to let me adopt.		215
I'm often dating people, but I don't say it because you sort of know it won't last long.	Dating	216
I'd like to retire at 50 but I don't want to sell papers in the middle of London on a Zimmer.		217
I am really bad at actually interviewing people.		218
The BBC is a victim of its own independence.	Independence	219
It sounds deeply shallow, but for brief spells every member of the public can be fascinating.		220
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.'		221
I don't think anyone wants to be gay.		222
It's lovely to get one successful show - the chances of finding a second one are not so hot.		223
You don't want money to make you a social freak where you can only hang out with rich people.		224
An awful lot of female celebrities are very beautiful whereas a lot of male celebrities are not so hot.		225
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.		226
My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me.		301
Well, certainly I think American television is - that's proper TV.		302

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