Irish - Celebrity | April 4, 1963 -
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.
Graham Norton
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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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I think the word is adult!
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A comedian's a comedian. They're a very kind of cynical bunch. I guess that's why I like them.
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Britain's such a twisted, weird little place.
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I am very quick to judge.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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All these people I interview are worth ten times what I'm worth.
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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.
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If it was possible for me to adopt, I probably would, but no one's going to let me adopt.
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