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" 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?' "

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" Do I think human beings are meant to be in 40-year-long monogamous, faithful, relationships? No, No, No. Whoever said they were? Only the Bible or something. No one ever said that was a good idea. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The truth is, I'd never seen a Cary Grant film. Since then I have watched his stuff and it's astounding, but I don't see any similarity between us. Except for the fact that I'm told he used to wear ladies' underwear, which is something I also do. "

" My contemporary art collection began with just needing to put things on the wall. I was looking around my Victorian house thinking, 'What would be the coolest is contemporary art - it will make me look young and interesting.' I'm more than 80 percent skeptical of the whole thing. "

" 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. "

" Neither Elizabeth or I are keen to do a real-life couple on the screen. It's not very electric. "

" Theater has always been much more fun. You get a laugh, and it's really encouraging. "

Hugh Grant

Always

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" Basically, my life is so boring, it's embarrassing. "

" I used to dream about Gorbachev before he lost power. I'd go into a panic because I was meeting him, and I had nothing to wear. I'd ask my brother what to do, and he'd tell me to wear my dressing gown. I'd tell him I can't - it's too horrible. He'd tell me to wear his as well. So I'd meet Gorbachev wearing two dressing gowns. "

" 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. "

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Love

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" Love scenes are extremely difficult. You're always within a millimeter of sentimentality and 'yuck.' "

" I dreaded the dance scene in 'Love Actually' more than having my teeth extracted. "

" I quite like Pilates now. I have a Pilates girl in every city. "

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" I'm a terrible vacillator; I can be sure of something one day and change my mind the next. "

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" I've got four houses in my street. I live in two, and the others are empty. I'll buy more as they come up, because I think it would be great to have the entire street. "

" 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. "

" It's very rare in life to be sure about something - particularly when it's an issue. "

" Brexit was a fantastic example of a nation shooting itself full in the face. "

" I don't want to see the end of popular print journalism. "

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" I have this absurd syndrome where I get these out-of-the-blue, pathetic panic attacks. It'll be in a very easy, simple scene when everything is going swimmingly, and then suddenly, bang, I'm shvitzing and can't remember my lines. "

" The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather. "

" My whole history of being an actor is unusual and slightly disgraceful because it should be something you burn to do. "

" I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really. "

" Throughout my life, whenever I thought I'm dancing welI, I'm not. "

" I'm a terrible actor. I'm still learning. When I first started, I wish I knew then to trust myself more, really. I was in a terrible panic in the early part of my career. "