Quotes from Richard E. Grant

Time and time again I was told that I would never make the film on time and never make it on budget. That kind of criticism tends to turn me into a great big motor of efficiency.

I was brought up to appreciate the here and now, and, knowing this is your only life, to view death as an inevitable and reassuring end.

I would still like to go to the moon before I die.

Well, it's true that I've never been solitary, although I spend a lot of time alone. I've never felt lonely or been shy.

I watch TV all the time. Everything.

You can measure success by the number of friends who have remained loyal to you, and you to them.

I wrestle every opportunity with gusto.

When I meet a couple, I'm always interested to know if they have been together for a long time, or how loyal they are, because I know that will impact on how much I'm prepared to trust them.

The movies are something that I've been obsessed with, and I've subscribed to movie magazines all my life, since I was a child.

The Christmas tree goes up on December 1. I love it.

Smell is the shortest synaptic leap in the brain to our memory, and I'm amazed that people don't sniff everything.

I would love to play your common, everyday guy, but I never get cast as that.

Always have an answer - even if you change your mind five minutes later.

Unless you are an enormous name, you never stop auditioning.

I've kept a diary since I was 11. It's a way of taking stock, almost meditative, trying to make sense of stuff because life is chaotic.

I think I have a romantic idea of life; I certainly have a romantic outlook. I think. I hope.

I don't think it's the case that 'posh actors' get more work than others.

Actors always think that others are getting more work than them. In my case, they usually are.

Even 31 sounds quite old to me, because my brain is probably still in a state of adolescent delinquency.

I went to a school called Waterford Kamhlaba, and 'Kamhlaba' is what the king of Swaziland called the school because... in siSwati, it means 'all the world in one.'

I have been incredibly privileged with my roles - after all I have had the chance to do some fantastic fun acting such as the Spice Girls Movie - who can ever forget that!

Every time I try to plan something or assume that something's going to happen, it never works out like that.

My father died prematurely at the age of 52 when I was 24, and it is a recurring regret that he never lived to see me succeed beyond university and drama.