I’m not a hopeless romantic. I’m quite the reverse. I’m a nasty piece of work, an ego maniac.
Hugh Grant
I frequently dream of having tea with the Queen.
Hugh Grant
A free press is the cornerstone of democracy; there is no question about that.
Hugh Grant
Do I think human beings are meant to be in 40-year-long monogamous, faithful, relationships? No, No, No. Whoever said they were? Only the Bible or something. No one ever said that was a good idea.
Hugh Grant
I had a kiss with Raquel Welch’s daughter – she was a very naughty kisser.
Hugh Grant
It’s very true that you can be both selfless and selfish at the same time. What we tend towards, particularly in filmmaking, is this binary sort of, ‘This is a good guy, this is a bad guy.’ And I quite like the fact that life is a bit more complex than that.
Hugh Grant
You know everyone loves to be the villain.
Hugh Grant
I just don’t believe in love at first sight anymore, even though I’ve based my whole career on the concept. In my experience, power, money and influence always attract the opposite sex. It’s something that I’ve always exploited – with good results.
Hugh Grant
I’ve certainly had a bad attitude to my job on many occasions. Not since ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’. I’ve been rather a good boy and really given it everything when I’ve accepted a part since then, because I’ve been given much better parts in films.
Hugh Grant
The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather.
Hugh Grant
The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather.
Hugh Grant
If you have a smothering parent, the effect it can apparently have on a child is to give them, in equal doses, a sense of too much self-esteem, because they are mummy’s little princess or prince, and low self-esteem. It affects future relationships.
Hugh Grant
I think I’m rather young and sprightly, but then you see pictures of yourself and think, ‘Who is that old man?’ and I realise I’m not as young as I thought I was.
Hugh Grant
I’m quite jealous of my Scottish relations, in whose culture everyone, in a Jane Austen kind of way, got married very young, when you’re too young to be cynical or jaded and just started having children.
Hugh Grant
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
Brexit was a fantastic example of a nation shooting itself full in the face.
Hugh Grant
I quite like Pilates now. I have a Pilates girl in every city.
Hugh Grant
Some newspapers in Britain have become closer to these kind of mafia families. They wield an incredible power. They choose our governments, they choose our prime ministers, and they live above the law.
Hugh Grant
With 2 movies opening this summer, I have no relaxing time at all. Whatever I have is spent in a drunken stupor.
Hugh Grant
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
Plus, teaching brings home to you very fast that you actually know nothing. I didn’t realize that before.
Hugh Grant
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
My mother was a teacher.
Hugh Grant
My contemporary art collection began with just needing to put things on the wall. I was looking around my Victorian house thinking, ‘What would be the coolest is contemporary art – it will make me look young and interesting.’ I’m more than 80 percent skeptical of the whole thing.
Hugh Grant
Frankly, I think I’m marvelous in rehearsal! Then you turn the camera on, and it gets stiff and tight. And then you trudge back to your trailer feeling sad. That’s been my experience of film acting.
Hugh Grant
I’m horrible in the mornings. I’m grumpy.
Hugh Grant
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
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
Basically, my life is so boring, it’s embarrassing.
Hugh Grant
I used to dream about Gorbachev before he lost power. I’d go into a panic because I was meeting him, and I had nothing to wear. I’d ask my brother what to do, and he’d tell me to wear my dressing gown. I’d tell him I can’t – it’s too horrible. He’d tell me to wear his as well. So I’d meet Gorbachev wearing two dressing gowns.
Hugh Grant
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
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
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
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
Neither Elizabeth or I are keen to do a real-life couple on the screen. It’s not very electric.
Hugh Grant
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
I’m a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact.
Hugh Grant
I think that’s the whole point of Bridget Jones. It’s all about that it’s okay to fail.
Hugh Grant
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
I find it hard to understand why Scorsese has never called. You know, given the natural menace I bring to the screen.
Hugh Grant
I don’t have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really.
Hugh Grant
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
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
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
And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It’s incredibly, mind numbingly slow.
Hugh Grant
Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you’re quite battle-scarred.
Hugh Grant
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
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
My laziness is really profound. I’m really interested in where it comes from – it almost feels chemical. And we’ve all got ADD now, short attention span and all that.
Hugh Grant
I couldn’t put my hand on my heart and say I think that being in a relationship is a natural state for a human being.
Hugh Grant
I look at life and I see some very happy relationships, but I also see the vast majority as not being that happy.
Hugh Grant
I have no doubt that I’d be a marvelous father. Maybe not when they’re tiny, but when they’re a little bit older, I think I’d be rather good.
Hugh Grant
I’m quite proud of some of the films I’ve done, but less for the acting than for the fact that they’re unpretentious and entertaining. I’m proud of having made unpretentious choices.
Hugh Grant