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Richard E. Grant
British
Actor
Born:
May 5
,
1957
Been
Life
Me
People
Time
You
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Never give up. You only get one life. Go for it!
Richard E. Grant
Life
Never Give Up
You
Give
Only
Never
Go
Go For It
Up
Get
The Christmas tree goes up on December 1. I love it.
Richard E. Grant
Love
Christmas
Christmas Tree
Tree
Up
Goes
December
My parents were divorced when I was 11, and it made such a profound impression on my life that I suppose I thought that by not getting married, you could avoid your life being carved in two.
Richard E. Grant
Life
You
Thought
Made
My Life
Parents
Married
Carved
Could
Divorced
Suppose
Were
Impression
Getting
Getting Married
Being
Your
Avoid
Profound
Two
I think I have a romantic idea of life; I certainly have a romantic outlook. I think. I hope.
Richard E. Grant
Life
Hope
Think
Outlook
Idea
Romantic
Certainly
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.
Richard E. Grant
Life
Death
Inevitable
Brought
Only
Knowing
End
Up
View
Your
Reassuring
Now
Here
Appreciate
I've been led by my nose all my life and tried to make perfume by boiling sugar water in jam jars and stuffing them full of gardenia and rose petals when I was growing up in Swaziland.
Richard E. Grant
Life
Water
My Life
Rose
Sugar
All My Life
Tried
Stuffing
Perfume
Make
Been
Led
Up
Jam
Nose
Them
Full
Boiling
Petals
Growing
Growing Up
Everything I dared dream of has come to fruition. Which is not to say that I don't grumble with the best of them, but the wobbles have been way outweighed by the wonders.
Richard E. Grant
Best
Everything
Way
Say
Dared
Dream
Come
Been
Wonders
Fruition
Which
Them
Grumble
The fashion world is much more ephemeral than the film industry and moves at a faster pace, and it's got even more frenetic since the Nineties; more paparazzi hanging about and it seems to me there are even more fashion magazines.
Richard E. Grant
Fashion
Me
World
Faster
Nineties
Paparazzi
Magazines
About
Seems
More
Since
Industry
Got
Than
Hanging
Moves
Pace
Ephemeral
Much
Even
Fashion World
Film
Film Industry
Always have an answer - even if you change your mind five minutes later.
Richard E. Grant
You
Change
Mind
Later
Minutes
Answer
Always
Five
Your
Even
Because I grew up in Africa, I always see people and try to understand characters as what kind of animal they'd be.
Richard E. Grant
Animal
People
Try
Characters
Kind
See
Because
Understand
Always
Up
Africa
Grew
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.
Richard E. Grant
Time
Great
Me
Criticism
Big
Kind
Would
Tends
Never
Budget
Make
Time And Time
Motor
Efficiency
Again
Turn
Film
I am drawn to writing and directing as it is most like the feeling I had when I was a teenager with my puppet theatre. You are more in control of everything and involved in every aspect of production, so more challenged and fulfilled.
Richard E. Grant
You
Theatre
Writing
Feeling
Control
Every
Teenager
Everything
Drawn
Puppet
Directing
More
Had
Like
Most
Involved
Am
Fulfilled
Aspect
Production
Challenged
Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge.
Richard E. Grant
Yourself
Challenge
Field
High
Ongoing
Rate
Casualty
Proving
Where
I'm a hoarder.
Richard E. Grant
I like fixing things.
Richard E. Grant
Like
Fixing
Things
I don't think it's the case that 'posh actors' get more work than others.
Richard E. Grant
Work
Think
Others
Case
More
Than
Get
Actor
Posh
I watch TV all the time. Everything.
Richard E. Grant
Time
Everything
TV
Watch
Lena Dunham is an extraordinary woman.
Richard E. Grant
Woman
Extraordinary
Lena Dunham
The ease and pleasure of a long marriage is like gold dust. You feel fed and sustained and that you're intimately known.
Richard E. Grant
You
Marriage
Long
Dust
Pleasure
Ease
Fed
Feel
Like
Known
Gold
Sustained
Every time I try to plan something or assume that something's going to happen, it never works out like that.
Richard E. Grant
Time
Try
Every
Assume
Every Time
Out
Something
Never
Like
Going
Happen
Plan
Works
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.
Richard E. Grant
Life
My Life
All My Life
Magazines
Something
Obsessed
Since
Been
Child
Subscribed
Movie
Movies
I always panic on the first day of work. You can do all the Stanislavsky-backstory homework, but when that moment arrives and you are in the clothes, hair, and makeup of somebody else, and you're saying the words created by somebody else - I never know how to do it. It's a complete mystery to me.
Richard E. Grant
Work
Saying
Day
Me
You
Words
Somebody
Hair
First
Clothes
Homework
Else
Panic
Complete
Complete Mystery
Mystery
Never
Know
Makeup
Always
How
Created
Moment
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.
Richard E. Grant
Life
Sense
Chaotic
Way
Taking
Almost
Stuff
Since
Make
Because
Diary
Stock
Trying
Kept
My father was an alcoholic. I come from a family of them, so it's genetic luck or malfunction that I've ended up with no enzyme that processes it. I literally can't drink.
Richard E. Grant
Family
Father
Luck
Drink
Genetic
Come
Malfunction
Up
Ended
Literally
Processes
Them
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