Richard Grant Quotes

• Swaziland is a small part of south-east Africa, the last country in the continent to gain its independence.

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  Tags in Small, Last

• If you’re doing well, you’re a target, nobody’s interested in you except how you can be of use to them.

  Richard Grant

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  Tags in Doing, Nobody, Interested

• The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose.

  Richard Grant

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  Tags in Often, Purpose, Value

• You finish a movie and you think, there, you’ve done it, really well, or best you can. But if you watch it, you see it was just bollocks.

  Richard Grant

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Best, Done, Movie

• You have to look at the discrepancy between what you hoped and imagined and the reality of yourself and all your shortcomings.

  Richard Grant

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  Tags in Yourself, Reality, Look

• When an actor asks you to read his script, your heart sinks. The number of scripts I’ve been given by actors that are so unbelievably terrible!

  Richard Grant

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  Tags in Heart, Read, Actor

• I loved being asked 2,000 questions a day, storyboarding every move, knowing as though by instinct exactly where the camera had to be, because it was my story.

  Richard Grant

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  Tags in Day, Knowing, Story

• It’s well known that actors are lousy writers.

  Richard Grant

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  Tags in Actors, Writer

Richard Grant (8)

Birth:	5th May, 1957
Nationality:	British, Swazi
Profession:	Actor, Director, Screenwriter

About

Richard E. Grant is a British-Swazi actor, screenwriter, and director. Grant came to public attention in 1987 for playing Withnail in the film Withnail and I. Grant was born Richard Esterhuysen in Mbabane, Swaziland. He adopted his stage name when he moved to Britain as an adult and registered with the British Actors' Equity Association.

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• 1886 - Ty Cobb
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• 1957 - Randi Weingarten
• 1943 - Alan Rudolph
• 1970 - Victoria Pratt

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• 1971 - Robert Tyre Jones Jr.
• 2006 - Joseph Barbera
• 1892 - Richard Owen
• 1855 - Samuel Rogers
• 2011 - Vaclav Havel