Richard E. Grant

“Actors always think that others are getting more work than them. In my case, they usually are.”

“Ensure that your script is watertight. If it's not on the page, it will never magically appear on the screen.”

“When I came to England, the first director I met was Charles Sturridge, who told me, 'You speak like somebody out of the 1950s.'”

“You feel your game's raised by working with the best people.”

“I was brought up to appreciate the here and now, and, knowing this is your only life, to view death as an inevitable and reassuring end.”

“I don't think it's the case that 'posh actors' get more work than others.”

“Every time I try to plan something or assume that something's going to happen, it never works out like that.”

“I'm a hoarder.”