Hugh Grant

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“'Notting Hill?' Does that poke fun at being British? Maybe it does. In 'Mickey Blue Eyes,' that's kind of the point: the clash of worlds, the unlikely combo of a respectable Englishman and a mob guy. If you take out the Britishness, you don't really have much.”

“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 wasn't aware I was trading on my good name; I've never had a good name.”

“I slightly lost my enthusiasm for most acting, but I've done some little bits and pieces - curiosities.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“There were various turning points, but the main one at the beginning was that I was going off to do another degree in the history of art. I would have ended up as some art historian at Sotheby's or something.”

“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.”

“If it's a choice between doing a film and not doing a film, I'd rather not. But then, you remember that you're supposed to be earning a living and that it's your career.”

“I think marriage is only necessary if you've got children. It's quite nice for them.”

“I'm horrible in the mornings. I'm grumpy.”

“If every play was three weeks, I'd do lots of plays. It's just the idea of six months, I think, that might drive me a bit nuts.”

“I certainly hated actors and, more importantly, they hated me.”

“Courage is soldiers fighting on the front line, or people living on the bread line.”

“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.”