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" When I think about actors I know, I'd much rather hear about who they're shagging than what film they're doing next. "
Hugh Grant
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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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" Basically, my life is so boring, it's embarrassing. "
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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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" Courage is soldiers fighting on the front line, or people living on the bread line. "
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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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" And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow. "
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" 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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" Strangely enough I'm better on a stage. I love that I feel like I blossom in front of a whole bunch of people. "
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" 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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" Neither Elizabeth or I are keen to do a real-life couple on the screen. It's not very electric. "
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" I get more satisfaction out of comedy stuff. I'm a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" I always admire the French and the Italians who are very devoted to their marriages. They take them extremely seriously, but it is understood that there might be other visitors at 5 o'clock in the afternoon. You just never boast about. They never say anything, but that's what keeps marriages together. "
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" 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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" Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred. "
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" I've driven people mad on films that I've made - I want more takes; I want to try new lines. Then I want to interfere in the editing process, and I want to interfere in the advertising process - everything, everything. Pretty much Barbra Streisand in trousers, I am! "
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" 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. "
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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 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 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. "
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" Something about teaching is curiously attractive, actually. I don't know what it is. "
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" Brexit was a fantastic example of a nation shooting itself full in the face. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" I think there's something unromantic about marriage. You're closing yourself off. "
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