Richard E. Grant Quotes

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

  Richard E. Grant

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Do Not Give Up

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• 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.

  Richard E. Grant

  Loyalty, Forgiving, Impossible

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• 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!

  Richard E. Grant

  Acting, Roles, Break

  Interview with Karen Jaehne, filmscouts.com.

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

  Richard E. Grant

  Mind, Answers, Minutes

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• 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.

  Richard E. Grant

  Thinking, Watches, Done

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Richard E. Grant

  Challenges, Ongoing, Fields

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• 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!

  Richard E. Grant

  Girl, Fun, Acting

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

  Richard E. Grant

  Play, Guy, Everyday

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

  Richard E. Grant

  Moon, Stills, Dies

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• 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

  Fashion, Moving, Pace

  "My Perfect Weekend: Richard E Grant". Interview with Anna Tyzack, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 16, 2010.

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

  Richard E. Grant

  Target, Use, Wells

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Richard E. Grant

  Criticism, Kind, Film

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• 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

  Lonely, Shy, Alone Time

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

  Richard E. Grant

  Directors, Pages, Scripts

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

  Richard E. Grant

  Thinking, Actors, Posh

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• I like fixing things.

  Richard E. Grant

  Fixing Things, Fixing

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

  Richard E. Grant

  Thinking, Actors, Cases

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• 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.

  Richard E. Grant

  Christmas, Depressing, Winter

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• 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!

  Richard E. Grant

  Heart, Numbers, Actors

  "Memories of mischief". Interview with Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2005.

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• 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.

  Richard E. Grant

  Teenager, Writing, Feelings

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• 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

  Directors, Firsts, England

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• I watch TV all the time. Everything.

  Richard E. Grant

  Watches, Tvs

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

  Richard E. Grant

  Names, Enormous

  "Richard E Grant: 'I hate restaurants where waiters have a PhD in being up themselves'" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2011.

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• 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.

  Richard E. Grant

  Couple, Impact, Long

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

  Richard E. Grant

  Games, People, Raised

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