Quotes from Hugh Grant

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

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!

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.

My contemporary art collection began with just needing to put things on the wall. I was looking around my Victorian house thinking, 'What would be the coolest is contemporary art - it will make me look young and interesting.' I'm more than 80 percent skeptical of the whole thing.

I slightly lost my enthusiasm for most acting, but I've done some little bits and pieces - curiosities.

I never meant to be in romantic comedies; it's just what ended up happening. But they are tricky, in a post-1960s sexual revolution way. It was easier when you couldn't have sex scenes: everything crackled very nicely. They're not easy.

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!

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

I was fat-shamed the other day on a British newspaper. The headline was 'Four Bellies and a Turkey Neck.' They weren't wrong. I looked shocking.

I'm horrible in the mornings. I'm grumpy.

If you do too much acting in a lead part in a feature film where you're 40 ft. high, it's rather unattractive. You can see the acting. And it's actually the right thing to do to bring as much of yourself, I believe, to the part as you possibly can - to minimize the amount of theatrical stuff that you need to do.

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.

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.

Brexit was a fantastic example of a nation shooting itself full in the face.

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

I couldn't put my hand on my heart and say I think that being in a relationship is a natural state for a human being.

At my school, which was all boys, I played almost exclusively lady parts. When I say lady parts, I mean parts that were ladies. To actually play lady parts would be weird, even by English standards.

I had a kiss with Raquel Welch's daughter - she was a very naughty kisser.

Neither Elizabeth or I are keen to do a real-life couple on the screen. It's not very electric.

I'm very unrelaxed doing a newspaper interview.

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

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

This guy Simon Helberg, who's in 'Florence Foster Jenkins,' I might have been vaguely patronizing to him because he hadn't done films before. Gradually, you realize, not only is the guy a much bigger star than me, he's maybe the richest man I've ever met.

If every play was three weeks, I'd do lots of plays. It's just the idea of six months, I think, that might drive me a bit nuts.