Hugh Grant Quotes

When you're younger, the mental strain of being a successful actor, jumping from role to role, and trying to have some kind of personal life, can really be terrible.

I've directed a couple of times in the theater, but I wouldn't make a habit of it because it's too consuming.

It's a question of finding the right thing, if I'm going to be an actor... if I have to get up eight times a week for a number of months, I want to be excited and challenged from the day I start to the day I leave.

The condition of being an actress can be unbearable.

When you're working on a project that's going to take six years, you're weird from the jump.

There's certainly harder things in the world and the country to do than being an actor, but it's a particularly emotionally humiliating thing to do, that you don't really anticipate when you choose to do it. You don't really think that it's going to be quite so soul-crushing at times.

I think I understand why most actors and actresses are insane, because having to go through an emotional roller coaster as your job every day of your life would make somebody absolutely loopy.

I truly believe that players who tell you they don't feel the pressure of international cricket, of being away from home for months at a time, are lying to everyone and themselves.

Often during rehearsals, I catch myself thinking, 'God, this is hard. Why am I always choosing such difficult plays to put on?'

Going back and forth between the press and something like The Crucible must be really crazy and intense.

So much about being a director is getting the show ready for that first preview audience. I have a lot of experience making events that only happen once; it's opening and closing night in the same three-hour span.

A romp in the hay lingers like the first line of a song, but your true love is the one you make a life with and write more than a line about, you write a whole book.

Marriage is a lot like the army, everyone complains, but you'd be surprise at the large number that re-enlist.

It's like you don't know you're making a record unless you're half-killing yourself.

Marriage is a commitment, not a feeling.

It's cool to fall in love and grow old with someone.

A painter can hang his pictures, but a writer can only hang himself.

Anyone who prefers owning part of your company to being paid in cash reveals a preference for the long term and a commitment to increasing your company's value in the future.

I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?

Only another writer can know how much damage writing a novel can do to you. It's an unnatural activity to sit at a desk and squeeze words out of yourself.

I'm ready and open to meeting the person that hopefully I'll share my life with. It takes a long time to get to that place.

Every movie is a commitment of a year or a year and a half. Commercials are much faster than that because they're much more contained. You can get in and out really fast, and you do a piece of work the you see the end result very quickly.

The reason why you date people is to get to know who you're gonna marry and spend the rest of your life with

When you're doing a movie, you're in and out of there in three months. If you hated the experience, it's all good because you can take the paycheck and leave. But, on a television show, you have to love your character and you have to love the experience because you could be there for awhile, fingers crossed.

Keep a journal, and don't assume that your work has to accomplish anything worthy: artists and peace-workers are in it for the long haul, and not to be judged by immediate results.