Hugh Grant Quotes

I do, I love to mock stuff. I am a British person.

I'm one of those pesky Brits.

Don't let the American accent fool you. I am British.

The Americans just have a great sort of wit about them.

This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one.

When I was a child in the 1940s and early 1950s, my parents and grandparents spoke of Britain as home, and New Zealand had this strong sense of identity and coherence as being part of the commonwealth and a the identity of its people as being British.

They'll always be an England, even if it's in Hollywood.

As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.

We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.

Maybe there's a sort of veneer of optimism about U.S. comedy, whereas perhaps in England, we don't mind ending it on a sourer note.

If I go anywhere where there are people who vaguely look like me, there is always that feeling of, 'Actually I do look quite similar to everyone else.' At moments like that, I become very, very British. My accent gets more clipped, and I stride around as if I've got an empire.

I was brought up in Britain, and I'm very proud of my Britishness and my culture.

I've found contemporary Britain difficult to write about because it seems to me to have lacked gravity or grandeur. This is some cultural problem which I don't really understand. It simply isn't the same in the United States.

The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture.

I spent more time in America, but I developed a very English sense of humour. I clicked into it deeply with Peter Sellers, who is still probably my favourite comedian.

I like reflecting the culture I understand best, spotting the idiosyncrasies of British people and revealing them to an audience in a way that amuses is what I find fun.

I've always been 'ethnic friend,' without any serious moments, all jokes.

I'd be quite excited to play somebody British.

Britain's a funny place and there's a lot of funny people coming out of there and a lot of people are finding mediums to express themselves.

British people are surprised that I'm British! It's extraordinary, I get tweets every day from British people saying, 'I had no idea you were British.'

American television constantly tries to co-op British comedy and create their own version of it. Most of the time it doesn't work; obviously, in the case of 'The Office,' it did. But a lot of times, it doesn't really work.

America has had an influence on me, as has going out with a Cuban-American guy and having lots of American friends. But I am still fundamentally British and speak with a British accent and feel very English.

Should we attempt to Occidentalize the Arab, we would make a mistake. Despite the complete difference in our outlook on life, he is, in his filth and poverty, contented and perhaps happy. Our clamorous. urge for a more generous life is unknown to him.

To all those who think being British depends on your skin color, wake up and smell the curry!

Bond may be a very international, cosmopolitan kind of character, but underneath it all, he is essentially British.