Richard E. Grant Quotes

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Richard E. Grant

Profession : Actor

Birth : May 5, 1957

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.

Richard E. Grant

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

Richard E. Grant

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

Richard E. Grant

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

Richard E. Grant

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.

Richard E. Grant

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

Richard E. Grant

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

Richard E. Grant

I watch TV all the time. Everything.

Richard E. Grant

Lena Dunham is an extraordinary woman.

Richard E. Grant

I wrestle every opportunity with gusto.

Richard E. Grant

I went to a school called Waterford Kamhlaba, and 'Kamhlaba' is what the king of Swaziland called the school because... in siSwati, it means 'all the world in one.'

Richard E. Grant

I've been an actor for so long, and a moviegoer ever since I can remember, because the country that I grew up in didn't have television.

Richard E. Grant

The movies are something that I've been obsessed with, and I've subscribed to movie magazines all my life, since I was a child.

Richard E. Grant

Because I grew up in Africa, I always see people and try to understand characters as what kind of animal they'd be.

Richard E. Grant

I always panic on the first day of work. You can do all the Stanislavsky-backstory homework, but when that moment arrives and you are in the clothes, hair, and makeup of somebody else, and you're saying the words created by somebody else - I never know how to do it. It's a complete mystery to me.

Richard E. Grant

I've kept a diary since I was 11. It's a way of taking stock, almost meditative, trying to make sense of stuff because life is chaotic.

Richard E. Grant

I've been on the 'Logan' movie set, which is a 300-strong crew of basically men. They had arms thicker than my thighs stuck together.

Richard E. Grant

My father was an alcoholic. I come from a family of them, so it's genetic luck or malfunction that I've ended up with no enzyme that processes it. I literally can't drink.

Richard E. Grant

You have to have some connection, empathy, or chemistry with the person you're playing and playing with.

Richard E. Grant

Even 31 sounds quite old to me, because my brain is probably still in a state of adolescent delinquency.

Richard E. Grant