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Hugh Grant Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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