Hugh Grant Quotes

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

You know everyone loves to be the villain.

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.

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 play the sort of character who would sell his grandmother for career advancement, something I've come across a lot with actors.

As it is, I have a limited range as an actor - light comedy. I have never been a fan of romantic comedies, and yet that is what I have ended up mostly doing.

Frankly, I think I'm marvelous in rehearsal! Then you turn the camera on, and it gets stiff and tight. And then you trudge back to your trailer feeling sad. That's been my experience of film acting.

I'm a terrible actor. I'm still learning. When I first started, I wish I knew then to trust myself more, really. I was in a terrible panic in the early part of my career.

I think marriage is only necessary if you've got children. It's quite nice for them.

I think there's something unromantic about marriage. You're closing yourself off.

Courage is soldiers fighting on the front line, or people living on the bread line.

My mother was a teacher.

I'm not a hopeless romantic. I'm quite the reverse. I'm a nasty piece of work, an ego maniac.