Hugh Grant Quotes

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• Basically, my life is so boring, it's embarrassing.
• 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…
• I find it hard to understand why Scorsese has never called. You know, given the natural menace I bring to the screen.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• At home, I hardly ever leave London. I don't like the countryside in England.
• I quite like Pilates now. I have a Pilates girl in every city.
• Strangely enough I'm better on a stage. I love that I feel like I blossom in front of a whole bunch of people.
• 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…
• I look at life and I see some very happy relationships, but I also see the vast majority as not being that happy.
• As it is, I have a limited range as an actor - light comedy. I have never been a fan of romantic comedies, and yet…
• With 2 movies opening this summer, I have no relaxing time at all. Whatever I have is spent in a drunken stupor.
• The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather.
• You know everyone loves to be the villain.
• The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.
• 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.
• 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…
• 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…

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