Graham Norton Quotes

I am really bad at actually interviewing people.

The thing about interviews is that if someone interviews you, and they're an idiot, then they make you sound like an idiot, too. They ask you stupid questions, and they bring you down to their level. It's tempting to not ever want to talk to anybody, but you can't do that.

I always seem to have a good time when I'm interviewed. I really enjoy the whole process of meeting another person and having that exchange, but you know, if I'd read all my press collectively, I know I'd just say, 'Well, I don't think I'll ever be interviewed again, thanks very much!'

I'm not a good interviewer.

I don't really know a lot of famous people. I've met a lot of famous people. If I ran into Tom Hanks today, I would have to remind him who I was and he would then remember me. But he wouldn't come up to me and say, 'Hi Dave!'

I've met Nicole Kidman, Elton John, loads of people.

I'm not used to interviews. People don't generally interview waitresses.

You've gotta understand - when you interview someone, it's not an interrogation. It's not the Nuremberg Trials.

People think I don't like interviews but I don't mind speaking about proper and interesting stuff. When it's stupid stuff to build your image and you are told to mention this and mention that, I hate it.

At a party recently I was introduced to Meryl Streep, and it took me a second to get my head around it. You know, that I'm meeting these people now. I'm doing it.

I've learned to treat celebrities as equals and just kind of meet them and admire their work, but I definitely could not breathe when I met Johnny Depp and James Franco.

I have nothing against interviews. I don't pursue them. When people I work for deem it appropriate, I'm perfectly willing to serve.

I do not believe that I have had an interview with anybody in twenty-five years in which the person to whom I was talking was not annoyed during the early part of the interview by my asking stupid questions.

I don't mind doing interviews. I don't mind answering thoughtful questions. But I'm not thrilled about answering questions like, 'If you were being mugged, and you had a lightsaber in one pocket and a whip in the other, which would you use?'

One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up.

I'd love to sit down with Barbara Walters. She's always asking people about their personal lives. I'd like to see how she likes it.

An interview will seem very sane to me, and I'll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.

If you get too excited about any one interview, you're making a mistake, because people do cancel.

There's all kinds of ways to be misunderstood, and one of them is via the interview.

Even if I'd wanted to work at Goldman Sachs, they weren't going to hire me, because I was saying things like, 'That's a dumb question' when I was asked something stupid in the interviews. I just didn't have a lot of respect for authority.

I don't get starstruck, really. It's cool to meet people if I've seen them in a film or series.

It used to frustrate me when I'd get celebrities on my shows and I had to meet them as this ludicrous magician character rather than as myself.

When I sit down to do an interview, I try to be polite and answer the questions that I'm asked.

In terms of, like, interviews, I used to struggle a lot with interviews; I never knew what to say.

Because I come from the place of interviewing, I know how to answer a question giving you what you need to hear and not a minute more.