Hugh Grant Quotes

#1. I look at life and I see some very happy relationships, but I also see the vast majority as not being that happy.

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#2. 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.

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#3. As it is, I have a limited range as an actor - light comedy. I have never been a fan of romantic comedies, and yet that is what I have ended up mostly doing.

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#4. 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.

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#5. I think that's the whole point of Bridget Jones. It's all about that it's okay to fail.

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#6. I just don't believe in love at first sight any more, even though I've based my whole career on the concept.

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#7. With 2 movies opening this summer, I have no relaxing time at all. Whatever I have is spent in a drunken stupor.

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#8. 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.

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#9. The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.

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#10. 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.

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#11. I'm very unrelaxed doing a newspaper interview.

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#12. 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.

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#13. 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.

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#14. I find it hard to understand why Scorsese has never called. You know, given the natural menace I bring to the screen.

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#15. My grandmother was utterly convinced I'd wind up as the Archbishop of Canterbury. And, to be honest, I've never entirely ruled it out.

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#16. And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow.

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#17. Neither Elizabeth or I are keen to do a real-life couple on the screen. It's not very electric.

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#18. Strangely enough I'm better on a stage. I love that I feel like I blossom in front of a whole bunch of people.

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#19. 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!

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#20. Basically, my life is so boring, it's embarrassing.

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#21. I'm a terrible vacillator; I can be sure of something one day and change my mind the next.

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#22. 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.

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#23. Now [after doing Pilates], I have muscles of steel and could easily deal with giving birth.

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#24. I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really.

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#25. The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather.

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#26. 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.

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#27. I'm such a chronic relativist, I can't hold down a strong opinion about many things long enough.

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#28. It's very rare in life to be sure about something - particularly when it's an issue.

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#29. I'm a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact.

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#30. When I think about actors I know, I'd much rather hear about who they're shagging than what film they're doing next.

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#31. 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.

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#32. 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.

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#33. Japanese women have always loved my films, even when no one else did. Ever since I made 'Maurice' in the 1980s, I've been getting hundreds of letter from Japanese girls. They definitely have a special place in my heart.

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#34. And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee ... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring.

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#35. I could do with more mobbing. Particularly from women. I'd like to be treated like Ricky Martin.

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#36. 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.

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#37. At home, I hardly ever leave London. I don't like the countryside in England.

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#38. 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.

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#39. 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.

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#40. 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.

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#41. 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.

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#42. I'm horrible in the mornings. I'm grumpy.

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#43. 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.

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#44. You know everyone loves to be the villain.

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#45. Plus, teaching brings home to you very fast that you actually know nothing. I didn't realize that before.

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#46. I quite like Pilates now. I have a Pilates girl in every city.

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#47. 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.

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#48. Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred.

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#49. I play the sort of character who would sell his grandmother for career advancement, something I've come across a lot with actors.

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