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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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" 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. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring. "

" 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. "

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" I'm horrible in the mornings. I'm grumpy. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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Girl

City

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

Hugh Grant

Journalism

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

" And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow. "

" Plus, teaching brings home to you very fast that you actually know nothing. I didn't realize that before. "

" Comedy is probably a way of dealing with anxiety. Sometimes it's a way of dealing with pain. "

" 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. "

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

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" I'm not a great believer in marriages as an institution, or even in very long term relationships. I'm not sure we're built that way. "

" 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. "

" I think maybe in a way it gets worse because you come in with a real reputation and they've paid you lots of money and all that. "

" 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. "

" I'm very unrelaxed doing a newspaper interview. "

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

" 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. "

" This guy Simon Helberg, who's in 'Florence Foster Jenkins,' I might have been vaguely patronizing to him because he hadn't done films before. Gradually, you realize, not only is the guy a much bigger star than me, he's maybe the richest man I've ever met. "

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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?' "

Hugh Grant

Laugh

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" I look at life and I see some very happy relationships, but I also see the vast majority as not being that happy. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "