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Hugh Grant
English
Actor
About the author
Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred.
Hugh Grant,
English
Actor
#Man
#Battle
#Women
Neither Elizabeth or I are keen to do a real-life couple on the screen. It's not very electric.
Hugh Grant,
English
Actor
Plus, teaching brings home to you very fast that you actually know nothing. I didn't realize that before.
Hugh Grant,
English
Actor
#Nothing
#Teaching
#Home
Strangely enough I'm better on a stage. I love that I feel like I blossom in front of a whole bunch of people.
Hugh Grant,
English
Actor
#Love
#People
The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather.
Hugh Grant,
English
Actor
#Will
#Weather
The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.
Hugh Grant,
English
Actor
#Work
#Reason
#Failure
#Actor
The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny.
Hugh Grant,
English
Actor
#Reason
#Funny
#Romantic
The truth is, I'd never seen a Cary Grant film. Since then I have watched his stuff and it's astounding, but I don't see any similarity between us. Except for the fact that I'm told he used to wear ladies' underwear, which is something I also do.
Hugh Grant,
English
Actor
#Film
#Truth
#Fact
#Ladies
Well, you know I have an office, my film offices. So I know that syndrome. I fancy offices, so there must be something wrong with me. Even the window cleaner intrigues me. It's a very sexy environment.
Hugh Grant,
English
Actor
#Film
#Wrong
#Environment
#Office
#Fancy
With 2 movies opening this summer, I have no relaxing time at all. Whatever I have is spent in a drunken stupor.
Hugh Grant,
English
Actor
#Time
#Movies
#Summer
You know everyone loves to be the villain.
Hugh Grant,
English
Actor
I had Courtney Love's left bosom out of her dress on my plate in front of me. It was extraordinary. I didn't know where to look.
Hugh Grant,
English
Actor
#Love
#Dress
Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll read a script and think, that's an interesting part. And because they love acting, that blinds them to the fact that the rest of it is pretentious nonsense, which it very often is.
Hugh Grant,
English
Actor
#Acting
#Want
#Love
#Rest
#Fact
#Nonsense
#Actors
When I think about actors I know, I'd much rather hear about who they're shagging than what film they're doing next.
Hugh Grant,
English
Actor
#Film
#Actors
I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book. But the awful truth is that I... probably can't!
Hugh Grant,
English
Actor
#Writing
#Fantasy
#Truth
I'm a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact.
Hugh Grant,
English
Actor
#Fact
And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring.
Hugh Grant,
English
Actor
#Being
#Quality
#Boss
Basically, my life is so boring, it's embarrassing.
Hugh Grant,
English
Actor
#Life
But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.
Hugh Grant,
English
Actor
#World
#Experience
#Genius
For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.
Hugh Grant,
English
Actor
#Fear
#Technology
#Being
#First
#Controversy
I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really.
Hugh Grant,
English
Actor
#Being
#Desire
I don't particularly like babies. I don't mind them for about four minutes. That's my max. After that I can't quite see what everyone's fussing about.
Hugh Grant,
English
Actor
#Mind
#Babies
I don't think there's much point in putting me a deep, dark, heavy, emotional film because there are people who do it so much better than I do.
Hugh Grant,
English
Actor
#Film
#People
#Deep
I find it hard to understand why Scorsese has never called. You know, given the natural menace I bring to the screen.
Hugh Grant,
English
Actor
I think that's the whole point of Bridget Jones. It's all about that it's okay to fail.
Hugh Grant,
English
Actor
I think maybe in a way it gets worse because you come in with a real reputation and they've paid you lots of money and all that.
Hugh Grant,
English
Actor
#Money
#Reputation
And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow.
Hugh Grant,
English
Actor
#Acting
#Film
#Mind
#Nature
But when you're a celebrity, you discover that you're no longer the pursuer, but the one being pursued. That's one of the disappointments I have had since becoming a single man.
Hugh Grant,
English
Actor
#Celebrity
#Being
#Man
#Disappointments