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. – Hugh Grant
And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It’s incredibly, mind numbingly slow. – Hugh Grant
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. – Hugh Grant
There was a phase in my career in my late 20s and 30s when I was doing strange, arty-farty Euro films that were, you could tell, never had much chance of any release anywhere in the world. – Hugh Grant
And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee… It’s the slave quality that I find very alluring. – Hugh Grant
I’ve driven people mad on films that I’ve made – I want more takes; I want to try new lines. Then I want to interfere in the editing process, and I want to interfere in the advertising process – everything, everything. Pretty much Barbra Streisand in trousers, I am! – Hugh Grant
Do I think human beings are meant to be in 40-year-long monogamous, faithful, relationships? No, No, No. Whoever said they were? Only the Bible or something. No one ever said that was a good idea. – Hugh Grant
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. – Hugh Grant
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. – Hugh Grant
When I think about actors I know, I’d much rather hear about who they’re shagging than what film they’re doing next. – Hugh Grant
Well, you know I have an office, my film offices. So I know that syndrome. I fancy offices, so there must be something wrong with me. Even the window cleaner intrigues me. It’s a very sexy environment. – Hugh Grant
I have known a few good marriages, but very few. And others look to me like they’re pretty miserable. I don’t really think that’s a recipe for happiness. – Hugh Grant
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. – Hugh Grant
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! – Hugh Grant
If it’s a choice between doing a film and not doing a film, I’d rather not. But then, you remember that you’re supposed to be earning a living and that it’s your career. – Hugh Grant
I think I’m rather young and sprightly, but then you see pictures of yourself and think, ‘Who is that old man?’ and I realise I’m not as young as I thought I was. – Hugh Grant
My laziness is really profound. I’m really interested in where it comes from – it almost feels chemical. And we’ve all got ADD now, short attention span and all that. – Hugh Grant
If you have a smothering parent, the effect it can apparently have on a child is to give them, in equal doses, a sense of too much self-esteem, because they are mummy’s little princess or prince, and low self-esteem. It affects future relationships. – Hugh Grant
A lot of actors look at scripts and think, ‘How will this stretch me as an actor?’ But I always thought, ‘Do I want to turn the page? Is this going to make people laugh?’ – Hugh Grant
I’m quite jealous of my Scottish relations, in whose culture everyone, in a Jane Austen kind of way, got married very young, when you’re too young to be cynical or jaded and just started having children. – Hugh Grant
