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Hugh Grant quotes

Ocupation: Actor

Life: b. September 9, 1960

Birthday: September 9

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

source: - "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Life Is, Boring, Embarrassing, So Boring

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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.

Topics: People, Enough, Stage

I quite like Pilates now. I have a Pilates girl in every city.

Topics: Girl, Cities, Pilates

At home, I hardly ever leave London. I don't like the countryside in England.

Topics: Home, London, England

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.

Topics: Thinking, Interesting, Acting

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.

Topics: Technology, Thinking, Firsts, New Technology

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.

Topics: Wise, Genius, World, Crossings

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

Topics: Natural, Given, Menace, Scorsese

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.

Topics: Mean Girls, Romantic Love, Scripts

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 of letter from Japanese girls. They definitely have a special place in my heart.

Topics: Girl, Heart, Special

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

Topics: Valentines Day, Laughing, Secret, Tarts

I just don't believe in love at first sight any more, even though I've based my whole career on the concept.

source: - Quoted in the Daily Telegraph, 1 Jan 2004.

Topics: Believe, Sight, Careers, Don't Believe In Love

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

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Women, Battle, Frightening

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.

Topics: Ambition, Grandmother, Wind, Canterbury

In the last couple of weeks I have seen the ads for the Wonder Bra. Is that really a problem in this country? Men not paying enough attention to women’s breasts?

Topics: Funny, Country, Couple

There is space in the supermarket shelf for all of us.

Topics: Space, Shelves, Supermarkets

You know everyone loves to be the villain.

Topics: Villain, One Love, Knows

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.

Topics: Dresses, Looks, Plates, Courtney

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.

Topics: Disappointment, Becoming, Single Man

Now [after doing Pilates], I have muscles of steel and could easily deal with giving birth.

Topics: Giving, Steel, Pilates

My dad used to have to open the second bottle of wine in the loo in case Mum heard the cork coming out.

Topics: Dad, Wine, Bottles

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

Topics: Thinking, Failing, Bridget Jones

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

Topics: Mind, Acting, Film, Film Acting

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.

source: - "I want to be alone. Oh really?" by Oliver Marre, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2007.

Topics: Baby, Mind, Max, Fussing

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!

Topics: Book, Writing, Creativity

The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.

Topics: Actors, Reason, Periods, Eclectic

When I think about actors I know, I'd much rather hear about who they're shagging than what film they're doing next.

Topics: Thinking, Actors, Next, Shagging

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

Topics: Teaching, Home, Realizing

I could do with more mobbing. Particularly from women. I'd like to be treated like Ricky Martin.

source: - "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Fame, Treated

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

Topics: Movie, Weather, Actors

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

Topics: Boss, Quality, Slave

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.

Topics: Deep Dark

I love in Notting Hill. You live in Beverly Hills. Everyone in the world knows who you are. My mother has trouble remembering my name.

Topics: Notting Hill

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