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" A free press is the cornerstone of democracy; there is no question about that. "
Hugh Grant
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Free
Democracy
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" I have known a few good marriages, but very few. And others look to me like they're pretty miserable. I don't really think that's a recipe for happiness. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm a great believer in eccentrically-shaped modern families. Because I've seen them work so well. And as long as everyone loves each other, it can work very well. "
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" I'm not a hopeless romantic. I'm quite the reverse. I'm a nasty piece of work, an ego maniac. "
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" I'm such a chronic relativist, I can't hold down a strong opinion about many things long enough. "
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" When I finished my degree at Oxford, I went and acted for a bit. And I was appalling. And with each part, I thought, 'Well, that's embarrassing. I'd better do one more to show people I'm not that bad.' And, in fact, instead of a taking a year, that's gone on for 35 years. "
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" Something about teaching is curiously attractive, actually. I don't know what it is. "
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" 'Notting Hill?' Does that poke fun at being British? Maybe it does. In 'Mickey Blue Eyes,' that's kind of the point: the clash of worlds, the unlikely combo of a respectable Englishman and a mob guy. If you take out the Britishness, you don't really have much. "
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" After I found that I had become an actor, slightly to my surprise, I did have some insecurity, and I did take some rather strange acting classes at a place called The Actor's Studio in London. I don't think they did me any good at all. "
Hugh Grant
Insecurity
Good
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" 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. "
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Think
Technology
Sometimes
" I don't particularly like babies. I don't mind them for about four minutes. That's my max. After that I can't quite see what everyone's fussing about. "
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" I slightly lost my enthusiasm for most acting, but I've done some little bits and pieces - curiosities. "
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Little
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" But when you're a celebrity, you discover that you're no longer the pursuer, but the one being pursued. That's one of the disappointments I have had since becoming a single man. "
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You
Single
Single Man
" At home, I hardly ever leave London. I don't like the countryside in England. "
Hugh Grant
Leave
Like
London
" In 'The Sound of Music,' I was a von Trapp daughter in a white dress with a blue satin sash, and my line was, 'I'm Brigitta. I'm 12, and all I want is a good time.' I got a laugh. And I was so delighted, I laughed, too. Sadly, that's a problem I still have - onstage, I laugh hysterically at how funny I am. "
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Blue
Good
Daughter
" It's very rare in life to be sure about something - particularly when it's an issue. "
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Rare
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About
" It's really frightening, American food on the whole. That's what always strikes me, coming from Europe: There's just so much of it! Then you plop down in front of the TV and watch ads for Weight Watchers. 'Lose weight now!' Well, eat less! "
Hugh Grant
Lose
American
Me
" 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. "
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Play
" 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. "
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Funny
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" 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. "
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Doing
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Acting
" I have no doubt that I'd be a marvelous father. Maybe not when they're tiny, but when they're a little bit older, I think I'd be rather good. "
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Good
" I'm quite jealous of my Scottish relations, in whose culture everyone, in a Jane Austen kind of way, got married very young, when you're too young to be cynical or jaded and just started having children. "
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Jealous
Culture
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" 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. "
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You
Choice
Doing
" And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring. "
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Employee
" 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. "
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Attitude
Bad
" The emphasis in 'Notting Hill' was perhaps, I thought, slightly more on the romance than on the comedy. But I think 'Mickey Blue Eyes' is maybe slightly more on the comedy. And the tone on 'Mickey Blue Eyes,' it's a far sillier film. "
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Comedy
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" I never meant to be in romantic comedies; it's just what ended up happening. But they are tricky, in a post-1960s sexual revolution way. It was easier when you couldn't have sex scenes: everything crackled very nicely. They're not easy. "
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Revolution
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" I'm quite proud of some of the films I've done, but less for the acting than for the fact that they're unpretentious and entertaining. I'm proud of having made unpretentious choices. "
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Proud
Some
Fact
" 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. "
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Late
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Career
" The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor. "
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