Richard E. Grant Quotes

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

The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest.

I don't work with anyone out of a sense of charity. I use people as long as they are useful to me.

I felt like they only cared about what I could do for them, not what they could do for me.

Hollywood 'friends' are only after one thing. They're looking out for the next big thing, and they don't want to miss out on you just in case.

Promise everything to anyone, unless clear obligation prevents it. Only live up to those promises which are of advantage to you.

Out of all the climbers of this generation, I was the one who became known to the larger public. Many of them - not all of them, but many of them - understood they had only one chance to use me for their personal gain. And it's very easy to use me.

Instead of respecting things, we want to use them for ourselves and if it is difficult to use them, we want to conquer them.

People see me as a person who can make them some money, which makes it hard to make real friends. I'm asked to do a lot of stuff for free - to wear certain clothes, turn up to events - people use you to make money. I think that's why I tend to jump into relationships.

What I didn't know was that if I didn't stand with my back to the wall, Hollywood people would unscrew my ass and sell it down the river.

There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage.

Grooming oneself with all the crazed compulsion of an under-exercised lab rat in order to hook a rich man and obtain a lush lifestyle makes a certain (albeit seedy) sense.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Politics is never about the people. It's about money. And wars. And how many heads you can step on and bodies you can step over. And I'm just not that kind of person.

I'm pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

I feel like a lot of people would quite easily stab you in the back once they get what they want. And you see that in people.

The diplomat holds all acts honorable which bring him success, all things are righteous which serve his ends. If cheating is necessary, he will cheat; if lying is useful, he will lie; if bribery helps, he will bribe; if murder serves, he will order murder; if burglary, seduction, arson or forgery brings success nearer, all and each of these will be done.

Hell hath no fury like a vested interest masquerading as a moral principle.

It's them that take advantage that get advantage in this world.

There is no such thing as eternal friendship or eternal hostility– only eternal interests.

The public be damned. What does the public care for railroads except to get as much out of them for as small a consideration as possible? I don't take any stock in this silly nonsense about working for anybody's good but our own, because we are not. When we make a move, we do it because it is in our interest to do so, and not because we expect to do somebody else good.

People may oppose you, but when they realize you can hurt them, they'll join your side.

I suppose, unconsciously, I used all my wives to further my journey up the ladder.

If you cash in on people, then they aren't your friends.

Takers are self-serving in their interactions. It's all about what can you do for me.