Quotes from Hugh Grant

I've certainly had a bad attitude to my job on many occasions. Not since 'Four Weddings and a Funeral'. I've been rather a good boy and really given it everything when I've accepted a part since then, because I've been given much better parts in films.

My whole history of being an actor is unusual and slightly disgraceful because it should be something you burn to do.

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

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

I just don't believe in love at first sight anymore, even though I've based my whole career on the concept. In my experience, power, money and influence always attract the opposite sex. It's something that I've always exploited – with good results.

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?'

I look at life and I see some very happy relationships, but I also see the vast majority as not being that happy.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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?

You will not fuck with my children's future. You will not destroy the freedoms my grandfather fought two world wars to defend. Fuck off you over-promoted rubber bath toy. Britain is revolted by you and you little gang of masturbatory projects. August 28, 2019

It's very true that you can be both selfless and selfish at the same time. What we tend towards, particularly in filmmaking, is this binary sort of, 'This is a good guy, this is a bad guy.' And I quite like the fact that life is a bit more complex than that.

I think the part of my acting career where I've been more successful, I've been incredibly cushioned. People are much too nice to you. You go into politics, and people are absolutely brutal. You've got proper enemies, and they're vicious. It's very invigorating.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.