I'm not a hopeless romantic. I'm quite the reverse. I'm a nasty piece of work, an ego maniac.

- Hugh Grant

I'm not a hopeless romantic. I'm quite the reverse. I'm a nasty piece of work, an ego maniac.

- Hugh Grant

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

- Hugh Grant

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.

- Hugh Grant

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.

- Hugh Grant

I used to pre-rehearse everything and then bring my pre-rehearsed performance to the set. Now, I'm learning to let it happen in the moment. American actors are much better at that than British actors. If I knew how to trust myself, I would have been much more relaxed.

- Hugh Grant

I used to pre-rehearse everything and then bring my pre-rehearsed performance to the set. Now, I'm learning to let it happen in the moment. American actors are much better at that than British actors. If I knew how to trust myself, I would have been much more relaxed. Maybe I would have less gray hairs today.

- Hugh Grant

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

- Hugh Grant

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.

- Hugh Grant

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

- Hugh Grant