Best 36 quotes of Hugh Grant on MyQuotes

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

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

At home, I hardly ever leave London. I don't like the countryside in England.

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

But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.

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.

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.

I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book. But the awful truth is that I... probably can't!

I could do with more mobbing. Particularly from women. I'd like to be treated like Ricky Martin.

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

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.

I don't think there's much point in putting me a deep, dark, heavy, emotional film because there are people who do it so much better than I do.

I find it hard to understand why Scorsese has never called. You know, given the natural menace I bring to the screen.

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.

I just don't believe in love at first sight any more, even though I've based my whole career on the concept.

I love in Notting Hill. You live in Beverly Hills. Everyone in the world knows who you are. My mother has trouble remembering my name.

I'm a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact.

In the last couple of weeks I have seen the ads for the Wonder Bra. Is that really a problem in this country? Men not paying enough attention to women’s breasts?

I play the sort of character who would sell his grandmother for career advancement, something I've come across a lot with actors.

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

I think that's the whole point of Bridget Jones. It's all about that it's okay to fail.

I've always enjoyed sex scenes, though you're not really supposed to. The classic answer is, 'Oh, it's not sexy at all because there are so many technicians standing around.' But I've always found them extremely arousing.

Japanese women have always loved my films, even when no one else did. Ever since I made 'Maurice' in the 1980s, I've been getting hundreds of letter from Japanese girls. They definitely have a special place in my heart.

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.

My dad used to have to open the second bottle of wine in the loo in case Mum heard the cork coming out.

My grandmother was utterly convinced I'd wind up as the Archbishop of Canterbury. And, to be honest, I've never entirely ruled it out.

Now [after doing Pilates], I have muscles of steel and could easily deal with giving birth.

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

Strangely enough I'm better on a stage. I love that I feel like I blossom in front of a whole bunch of people.

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

The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.

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.

There is space in the supermarket shelf for all of us.

When I think about actors I know, I'd much rather hear about who they're shagging than what film they're doing next.

Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred.

You know everyone loves to be the villain.