Hugh Grant Quotes

We all have enemies, but my enemies would probably describe me as surprisingly ruthless.

I suppose I'm a bit mean. My face on camera doesn't lend itself to happy nice guys. I think it's just that my bone structure looks menacing.

People come up to me and they're usually nice, but as it goes on you realise that some people aren't nice. Some people are not nice at all.

I'm well aware that I have been described in some quarters as being 'enigmatic, taciturn, prickly, explosive and forbidding'. Well, I have my moods like anyone else; I won't deny it.

Maybe I am not an easy guy.

I'm vicious. I can be nice off the ice, but on the ice, that's not where it's time to make friends.

My father was a very difficult man.

John Kerry can be absolutely ruthless. I would not want to be on his enemies list when he's ready to go after you.

Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.

There was a perception of me, and I earned it because I was really intense, really gruff. I treated certain people poorly at times. It was because of who I was. It was almost my strength. I came in all business. I tried to find ways to fit in with that demeanor, but it's not easy.

I'm belligerent rather than ambitious.

I'm not the lovable, wonderful, tenderhearted grandfather that you read about in books. I'm grouchy and curmudgeonly, and I have a lot of rules.

Bad guys have always been my bag... I look mean without even trying.

My stepfather was a very nasty individual.

I have a little bit more of an edge to me.

I became quite a diva, and intolerant, and people knew when I was not pleased. Some people were afraid of me, and other people just kind of blew me off. But I wasn't making any friends. I only had one person who remained my friend, and he was my boyfriend for a while. Even though I told him I was gay, he was like, 'That's alright.'

People used to call me violent, savage.

I'm not someone to joke around with.

I've always thought that people got the impression that I was a tough sort of ruffian type.

I'm abrasive. I am so sure that I'm right about virtually everything. I can sing you an aria of reasons to not like me.

I'm easy to hate.

In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.

I was extremely aggressive from the start.

I can be prickly and difficult on set.

People have maybe, sometimes, said that I can, occasionally, be a teeny bit edgy and judgmental.