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

- Paul O'Grady

I've frequently been asked over the years who Lily Savage was based on and I've always answered that it was no one in particular and she was just a f…

- Paul O'Grady

Noel Coward said work is more fun than fun, but then he didn't work in the Bird's Eye factory packing frozen fish fingers nine hours a day, did he?

- Paul O'Grady

If I wanted your opinion, I'd slap it outta ya.

- Paul O'Grady

I dress up as a middle-aged prostitute and do a game show.

- Paul O'Grady

Times are hard and friends are few

- Paul O'Grady

I was a really picky eater as a child. Because I was obsessed by Popeye, my mum and aunts would put my food in a can to represent spinach and we'd hu…

- Paul O'Grady

I don't want to sound like Catherine Cookson but I've worked since I was eight, with a paper round and in a fruit and veg shop. Taking a pay cut won'…

- Paul O'Grady

I am quite happy to take a cut. You've got to, if you want to work and continue working.

- Paul O'Grady