Graham Norton Quotes

I don't like being a celebrity.

I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character.

I owe 90 per cent of my life to people because I am a public figure, but 10 per cent is private to me. And I am not saying it in a defensive way. I feel my life has been made into a TV serial.

If I had to change one thing about my life, it would probably be, I wouldn't be famous. Because when you're famous it's so hard.

I understand that if you set out to be a celebrity, then you asked for it, but all I wanted to be was an actor.

I'm in the wrong racket if I didn't want a public life.

I don't care if I never do another TV show in my life.

I feel for anybody who has that level of celebrity where you can't lead a normal life.

My experience of being on the public platform got more multi-faceted, multi-dimensional, and my place in the public eye, I think, has always been a little more than just what is going on in that time in my life.

There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too.

I was born in front of a camera and really don't know anything else.

You can't complain about the pressures, the paparazzi, the madness. Because that is the job. I've always understood that's the deal.

I've been famous my entire life; I don't know any other way.

I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.

Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.

I'm very expressive, but I'm also a very private person. It is so hard to be private in the entertainment business.

There's a big difference to me between the people who are famous and just accept the fact that it comes with the territory of what they do, and the people who actively seek it out, who intentionally put themselves in the position of being on camera and being famous.

For me, I don't have a publicist. I don't want to talk about my personal life. I don't want to talk about my process. I don't want to be a model and do fashion shoots. It's nice to be an entertainer, but I'm a reluctant celebrity.

There are times when you see how ridiculous is this life, how ludicrous it is, you know, leaving your house every morning and being followed by paparazzi.

I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can.

Being on a television series is sort of life-altering on every level.

Celebrity damages private life.

I don't want to be a celebrity.

I don't want to be a reality TV star - that's not for me.

I think there's a time when your personal life gets magnified by who we are as celebrities.