Best Hugh Grant Quotes

#1. 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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#2. On 'Love Actually,' I met Hugh Grant, who is a relative: our great-grandmothers were sisters. He'd call me cousin and ruffle my hair. And it was brilliant working with David Tennant on 'Doctor Who.'

Thomas Sangster

#3. 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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#4. If you don't look like Rupert Graves or Hugh Grant, they'll have you playing the gardener.

Jared Harris

#5. 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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#6. Hugh Grant is the main man. He's the number one romantic comedy man in the world.

Sam Elliott

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

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

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#9. 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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#10. I believed in happily ever after as much as anyone, because Jane Austen, Prince Charming, and Hugh Grant promised me it could happen.
But maybe that particular delusion was universal.

Robin Wasserman

#11. One of the more surreal days I've ever had in the recording studio was Martin Fry teaching Hugh Grant his old dance moves. Showing him how to do the hair-flip and the point, and all these sort of trademark moves of his.

Adam Schlesinger

#12. 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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#13. Hugh Grant, who several times has announced that he was thinking of retiring from acting, has said that he suffers from panic attacks when the cameras start rolling.

Scott Stossel

#14. I did become quite well known from 'Four Weddings and a Funeral', and it helped hugely. I wasn't as famous as Hugh Grant, but I certainly began to work.

Anna Chancellor

#15. Hugh Grant does a great job with his style. Somehow understated yet timeless and seems to get it. He does it on and off camera.

David Lauren

#16. 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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#17. 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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#18. I'm very unrelaxed doing a newspaper interview.

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#19. 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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#20. 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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#21. 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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#22. 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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#23. 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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#24. Hugh Grant and I both laugh and cringe at the same things, worship the same books, eat the same food, hate central heating and sleep with the window open. I thought these things were vital, but being two peas in a pod ended up not being enough.

Elizabeth Hurley

#25. There's something very comforting about watching a Hugh Grant movie. You know no one's head will be blown off in the first three minutes, no one will be tortured, and the worst thing that might happen is seeing a lanky Welshman eating mayonnaise in his underpants

Ali McNamara

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

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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. 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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#30. On his fight scene with Hugh Grant in Bridget Jones: It was a delicious experience.

Colin Firth