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Hugh Grant
English
Actor
Born:
Sep 9
,
1960
About
Good
Me
People
Think
You
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Brexit was a fantastic example of a nation shooting itself full in the face.
Hugh Grant
Face
Example
Nation
Itself
Shooting
Fantastic
Full
Brexit
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.
Hugh Grant
Life
Time
Good
You
Selfish
Binary
Life Is A
Bit
Complex
Bad
Bad Guy
Guy
More
Both
Fact
Tend
True
Towards
Like
Particularly
Sort
Selfless
Very
Than
Same
Quite
Same Time
Good Guy
Filmmaking
I'm not a hopeless romantic. I'm quite the reverse. I'm a nasty piece of work, an ego maniac.
Hugh Grant
Work
Ego
Hopeless
Hopeless Romantic
Piece
Nasty
Reverse
Quite
Romantic
Maniac
Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred.
Hugh Grant
You
Man
Women
Women Are
Frightening
Get
Quite
I think there's something unromantic about marriage. You're closing yourself off.
Hugh Grant
You
Marriage
Yourself
Think
About
Something
Off
Closing
I frequently dream of having tea with the Queen.
Hugh Grant
Queen
Tea
Dream
Having
Frequently
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.
Hugh Grant
Law
Power
Become
Live
Incredible
Our
Kind
Ministers
Mafia
Some
Above
Prime
Prime Ministers
Governments
Families
Closer
Newspapers
Choose
Britain
Wield
I quite like Pilates now. I have a Pilates girl in every city.
Hugh Grant
Girl
Every
City
Like
Pilates
Quite
Now
Love scenes are extremely difficult. You're always within a millimeter of sentimentality and 'yuck.'
Hugh Grant
Love
You
Difficult
Extremely
Scenes
Within
Always
Sentimentality
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
Attention Span
Laziness
Add
Almost
Attention
Feels
Chemical
Got
Short
Short Attention Span
Where
Span
Interested
Really
Now
Profound
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.
Hugh Grant
Love
Good
Experience
Money
Sex
Power
First
Believe
Sight
Though
Something
Results
Attract
Concept
Always
Opposite
Opposite Sex
Love At First Sight
Just
Influence
Anymore
Exploited
Whole
Even
Based
Career
Courage is soldiers fighting on the front line, or people living on the bread line.
Hugh Grant
Courage
People
Fighting
Living
Soldiers
Line
Front
Front Line
Bread
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.
Hugh Grant
Love
Rest
Pretentious
Think
Fact
Part
Most
Read
Because
Blinds
Nonsense
Very
Often
Want
Burn
Which
Script
Interesting
Them
Really
Acting
Actor
I find it hard to understand why Scorsese has never called. You know, given the natural menace I bring to the screen.
Hugh Grant
You
Natural
Find
Menace
Given
Never
Know
Understand
Scorsese
Screen
Hard
Why
Bring
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.
Hugh Grant
Relationship
Heart
Natural
Human Being
Think
State
Say
Put
Hand
Human
Being
Natural State
I look at life and I see some very happy relationships, but I also see the vast majority as not being that happy.
Hugh Grant
Life
Happy
Relationships
See
Some
Vast
Vast Majority
Look
Also
Majority
Very
Being
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
Light
Comedy
Range
Never
Comedies
Mostly
Limited
Doing
Been
Up
Ended
Romantic
Fan
Romantic Comedies
Actor
I don't do much acting anymore anyway, and not to work for 20th Century Fox is really the least of my worries.
Hugh Grant
Work
Worries
Least
Anymore
Anyway
Century
Much
Really
Acting
Fox
The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather.
Hugh Grant
You
Will
Weather
Moral
Screwed
Britain
Filmmaking
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
Think
About
Rather
Know
Doing
Hear
Than
Much
Next
Who
Film
Actor
The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.
Hugh Grant
Work
Failure
Seems
Eclectic
Only
Period
Because
Up
Certain
Reason
Actor
Neither Elizabeth or I are keen to do a real-life couple on the screen. It's not very electric.
Hugh Grant
Neither
Couple
Very
Screen
Electric
Keen
Elizabeth
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
Me
People
Dark
Better
Think
Point
Emotional
Putting
Because
Than
Heavy
Much
Who
Deep
Film
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
Truth
Creative
Truth Is
Book
Writing
Something
More
Could
Like
Cling
Done
Script
Fantasy
Actually
Awful
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.
Hugh Grant
You
Wise
Experience
Genius
World
Way
Atlantic
Crossing
Know
Accent
Just
The Hardest Thing
Either
Even
Hardest
Hardest Thing
Thing
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
Quality
Find
Boss
Alluring
Like
Employee
Particularly
Very
Being
Whole
Thing
Slave
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