58 Quotes by Paul O'Grady

It's become normal for me to walk on set as Popeye, Frankenstein or an Elf or even a chicken.

I was born late - what my mother calls the last kick of a dying horse. There's three of us children, but I'm 13 or 14 years younger than my brother and sister.

My primary school teacher once poured a bottle of curdled school milk forcefully down my throat. Then I threw it up all over her suede shoes. I'd rather have drunk from the spittoon in Barney's barber shop.

You can draw the character out of pets, and you can make them your friends, but they are animals, and they have to be allowed to live the lives of animals.

I go in the butchers and there's not a lot of meat I can eat these days, with having all the animals.

I was Popeye mad when I was a kid, and I'd eat spinach until the cows came home.

The person I always enjoy having a meal with is Cilla Black. I might not see her for months, but then I'll pick her up at her flat, and we'll go to a restaurant, and it's like I've seen her that morning.

Mum and Dad died of heart problems, my grandparents died of it, my sister has had mini strokes, my brother has had a heart attack - it's genetic; there's nothing I can do.

I can eat beef, provided it's minced in disguise. I couldn't eat a gammon steak. Forget it.