Hugh Grant Quotes

• 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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• If Pulp Fiction had been set in the Sussex countryside— and I’m sure it could have worked—then things might have turned out very differently.

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• 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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• Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you’re quite battle-scarred.

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• You know everyone loves to be the villain.

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

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• 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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• Plus, teaching brings home to you very fast that you actually know nothing. I didn’t realize that before.

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

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• I think that’s the whole point of Bridget Jones. It’s all about that it’s okay to fail.

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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Hugh Grant (29)

Birth:	9th September, 1960
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor

About

Hugh John Mungo Grant was born in Hammersmith, London, England. He is an English actor. He has received a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, and a British Academy Film Award for his work. He earned a BA degree in English literature from Oxford University in 1982. His films have earned more than US$2.4 billion from 25 theatrical releases worldwide. His role in several films include: Privileged, Maurice, Rowing with the Wind, Impromptu, Bitter Moon, The Remains of the Day, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Sirens, Sense and Sensibility, Mickey Blue Eyes, Notting Hill, Bridget Jones's Diary, About a Boy, Love Actually, American Dreamz, Cloud Atlas, and Florence Foster Jenkins. His role in television include: Jenny's War, Champagne Charlie, The Lady and the Highwayman, and The Trials of Oz.

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