Richard E. Grant Quotations

I am a very judgmental person. Of myself and other people. I recognise it's a great fault, but I have no power over that.

I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.

Never give up. You only get one life. Go for it!

Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge.

It always depresses me when people moan about how commercial Christmas is. I love everything about it. The tradition of having this great big feast, slap bang in the middle of winter, is an essential thing to look forward to at the end of the year.

Time and time again I was told that I would never make the film on time and never make it on budget. That kind of criticism tends to turn me into a great big motor of efficiency.

Always have an answer - even if you change your mind five minutes later.

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

I would still like to go to the moon before I die.

The fashion world is much more ephemeral than the film industry and moves at a faster pace, and it's got even more frenetic since the Nineties; more paparazzi hanging about and it seems to me there are even more fashion magazines.

I am drawn to writing and directing as it is most like the feeling I had when I was a teenager with my puppet theatre. You are more in control of everything and involved in every aspect of production, so more challenged and fulfilled.

When I meet a couple, I'm always interested to know if they have been together for a long time, or how loyal they are, because I know that will impact on how much I'm prepared to trust them.

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.

I would love to play your common, everyday guy, but I never get cast as that.

Unless you are an enormous name, you never stop auditioning.

Well, it's true that I've never been solitary, although I spend a lot of time alone. I've never felt lonely or been shy.

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.

Anthony Hopkins says you just keep acting. Do it all the time and eventually it will happen. He got his break, after all, by taking a role nobody else wanted. A cannibal!

My father died prematurely at the age of 52 when I was 24, and it is a recurring regret that he never lived to see me succeed beyond university and drama.

If China does what it says it will do and it respects the Hong Kong way of life, ... they will continue to prosper along with everyone else in Hong Kong.

When people in the shade estimate UVB exposure based on an eyeball assessment, they're getting about twice as much UVB as they think.

The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account.

They want to keep growth rates down to about 10 percent a year. They don't want to go back to the growth rates of between 17 and 20 percent because that's where the inflationary pressure kicks in,

They were very nice and seemed very happy.

Apart from a cure for the diseases that plague us, an end to wars and other lofty ideals, I plan to direct a film I have written, but not act in it.

I realised that even if my film worked for just 40 people in a tiny movie theatre, then it would find a home. It was an incredible relief.

How much UVB you're getting more closely correlates with how much sky you can see. If lots of the sky is obstructed, you're getting a lot less UVB.

It's well known that actors are lousy writers.

I loved being asked 2,000 questions a day, storyboarding every move, knowing as though by instinct exactly where the camera had to be, because it was my story.

You finish a movie and you think, there, you've done it, really well, or best you can. But if you watch it, you see it was just bollocks.

When an actor asks you to read his script, your heart sinks. The number of scripts I've been given by actors that are so unbelievably terrible!

If you're doing well, you're a target, nobody's interested in you except how you can be of use to them.

I have been incredibly privileged with my roles - after all I have had the chance to do some fantastic fun acting such as the Spice Girls Movie - who can ever forget that!

I like fixing things.

I watch TV all the time. Everything.