Quotes from 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.

It's really frightening, American food on the whole. That's what always strikes me, coming from Europe: There's just so much of it! Then you plop down in front of the TV and watch ads for Weight Watchers. 'Lose weight now!' Well, eat less!

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.

Comedy is probably a way of dealing with anxiety. Sometimes it's a way of dealing with pain.

I get more satisfaction out of comedy stuff. I'm a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact.

I frequently dream of having tea with the Queen.

Something about teaching is curiously attractive, actually. I don't know what it is.

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

In 'The Sound of Music,' I was a von Trapp daughter in a white dress with a blue satin sash, and my line was, 'I'm Brigitta. I'm 12, and all I want is a good time.' I got a laugh. And I was so delighted, I laughed, too. Sadly, that's a problem I still have - onstage, I laugh hysterically at how funny I am.

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.

I don't want to see the end of popular print journalism.

Like lots of people who say, 'I'm going to write a novel,' it's actually more comfortable to think I could write a novel than to discover that you can't.

I dreaded the dance scene in 'Love Actually' more than having my teeth extracted.

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

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.

Some newspapers in Britain have become closer to these kind of mafia families. They wield an incredible power. They choose our governments, they choose our prime ministers, and they live above the law.

I'm not a great believer in marriages as an institution, or even in very long term relationships. I'm not sure we're built that way.

I'm a terrible vacillator; I can be sure of something one day and change my mind the next.

I've always dreaded the sea - in fact, I get terribly seasick.

The angry Scot is a cliche not without some foundation. That's the Lowland Scot - I'm a Highlander. We're particularly lovely and charming.

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.

Theater has always been much more fun. You get a laugh, and it's really encouraging.

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

A free press is the cornerstone of democracy; there is no question about that.