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" 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
Think
Heart
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" Comedy is probably a way of dealing with anxiety. Sometimes it's a way of dealing with pain. "
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" Well, you know I have an office, my film offices. So I know that syndrome. I fancy offices, so there must be something wrong with me. Even the window cleaner intrigues me. It's a very sexy environment. "
Hugh Grant
You
Environment
Know
" Neither Elizabeth or I are keen to do a real-life couple on the screen. It's not very electric. "
Hugh Grant
Electric
Couple
Screen
" 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
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Love
Experience
" 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
Nice
Work
Think
" 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
Laugh
Look
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" Frankly, I think I'm marvelous in rehearsal! Then you turn the camera on, and it gets stiff and tight. And then you trudge back to your trailer feeling sad. That's been my experience of film acting. "
Hugh Grant
Sad
Think
You
" I think there's something unromantic about marriage. You're closing yourself off. "
Hugh Grant
Closing
Marriage
Think
" 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
" Throughout my life, whenever I thought I'm dancing welI, I'm not. "
Hugh Grant
My Life
Life
Dancing
" 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. "
Hugh Grant
Revolution
Easy
You
" 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. "
Hugh Grant
Proud
Some
Fact
" Basically, my life is so boring, it's embarrassing. "
Hugh Grant
Life
Boring
My Life
" At my school, which was all boys, I played almost exclusively lady parts. When I say lady parts, I mean parts that were ladies. To actually play lady parts would be weird, even by English standards. "
Hugh Grant
Play
Weird
School
" 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. "
Hugh Grant
Jealous
Culture
You
" If you have a smothering parent, the effect it can apparently have on a child is to give them, in equal doses, a sense of too much self-esteem, because they are mummy's little princess or prince, and low self-esteem. It affects future relationships. "
Hugh Grant
Future
Parent
You
" I don't want to see the end of popular print journalism. "
Hugh Grant
Journalism
Print
End
" For a few years, I thought I was putting show business behind me. I was busy doing other things in life, particularly with politics. I was not out looking for films, really. I lost interest. "
Hugh Grant
Life
Looking
Busy
" 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. "
Hugh Grant
Blue
Good
Daughter
" I wasn't aware I was trading on my good name; I've never had a good name. "
Hugh Grant
Had
Name
Never
" 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. "
Hugh Grant
Doubt
Father
Good
" My mother was a teacher. "
Hugh Grant
Mother
Teacher
" Although I'm largely doing other things in life, it's very nice occasionally to put my toe back in the waters of show business. "
Hugh Grant
Show
Nice
Life
" I certainly hated actors and, more importantly, they hated me. "
Hugh Grant
Importantly
Hated
Certainly
" I suppose after 'Four Weddings' I was very busy for a bit, and I imagined that was my career, but I never had that thing of, 'I'm burning to be an actor. If I don't act, I'm not alive.' I've never had that. "
Hugh Grant
Never
Career
Busy
" 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. "
Hugh Grant
You
Single
Single Man
" I find it hard to understand why Scorsese has never called. You know, given the natural menace I bring to the screen. "
Hugh Grant
Understand
You
Find
" 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. "
Hugh Grant
Job
Attitude
Bad
" 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
Selfless
Good
Life
" 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. "
Hugh Grant
Meeting
Brother
Dream