Hugh Grant Quotes

When you see a bad romantic comedy, you see the script, the director, and the actors trying to create this warmth and this pathos and this feeling that you care about them. That cannot be manufactured - it's either there or it isn't.

Love scenes feel very mechanical. But our whole job is to make it look real.

Normal People' is an incredibly intimate show, there are a lot of love scenes in it and it's beautifully done.

I think all movie love scenes are hard because you can't truly be as intimate as you would be with anyone you're truly with, and everyone's watching you.

I want a kiss to be so believable it gives the reader shivers.

When you get to play a character that's in love, it's cool.

I find love stories satisfying when you can see the work - when you can really watch people find each other and fall in love, a little bit at a time. I like slow burns. Falling in love is so good; why would you want to rush it?

I prefer love scenes to be shot up close with a lot of focus on eyes and mouths. Otherwise it can feel uncomfortable and voyeuristic.

Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.

I find it really awkward to do a scene where I'm supposed to seem like I'm in love.

Girls love emotion.

Doing love scenes is always awkward. I mean, it's just not a normal thing to go to work and lay in bed with your co-worker.

In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else I've ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination.

I always get carried away when I'm kissing. I just go nuts! Walking away after it is the strangest moment for me. It's embarrassing - not knowing what to say to each other.

So many times you see beautiful lovemaking scenes with a lot of exposure or an awkward lovemaking scene, but I think it's very rare that you see it private.

I happen to know there is nothing sexy or romantic about love scenes. They are just awful to do.

I am quite a romantic person, really, and I should have put that into my music earlier, but I was probably denying it... I didn't want to be soft because I felt I had to be so hard to get people to believe in me.

I like to believe that intimate moments between characters don't need to be relegated to independent films.

Some people fall in love with their co-stars and feel things that they never thought they would feel for them because they are touching.

I haven't had to do too many, or many explicit ones. Everybody feels weird, and everybody is trying to tiptoe around and make you think they're not there. The last time I did a love scene, I couldn't keep a straight face.

People will always need love, romance, a tender touch, and really personal and deeply felt music.

I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.

I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.

Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer.

It is natural for a young fellow to like the acquaintance of females and customary for him to keep them company when occasion serves. Some one of them is more agreeable to him than the rest; there is something, he knows not what, pleases him, he knows not how, in her company. This I take to be what is called love with the greatest part of us.