Love scenes are extremely difficult. You’re always within a millimeter of sentimentality and ‘yuck.’ Hugh Grant Read Quote
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?’ Hugh Grant Read Quote
There was a phase in my career in my late 20s and 30s when I was doing strange, arty-farty Euro films that were, you could tell, never had much chance of any release anywhere in the world. Hugh Grant Read Quote
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. Hugh Grant Read Quote
I’m a terrible vacillator; I can be sure of something one day and change my mind the next. Hugh Grant Read Quote
I get very annoyed when people think I’m nice or diffident or a polite English gentleman. I’m a nasty piece of work, and people should know that. Hugh Grant Read Quote
I had Courtney Love’s left bosom out of her dress on my plate in front of me. It was extraordinary. I didn’t know where to look. Hugh Grant Read Quote
I used to pre-rehearse everything and then bring my pre-rehearsed performance to the set. Now, I’m learning to let it happen in the moment. American actors are much better at that than British actors. If I knew how to trust myself, I would have been much more relaxed. Maybe I would have less gray hairs today. Hugh Grant Read Quote
Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of acting: character acting and lead acting. And in my life, to begin with, in the 1980s, it was all character acting. And then when, by fluke, through ‘Four Weddings’, I got into doing lead parts, it’s a completely different thing. Hugh Grant Read Quote
