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Swazi-English actor, Birth: 5-5-1957 Richard E. Grant Quotes
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Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge.
Richard E. Grant

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Never give up. You only get one life. Go for it!
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I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.
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Anthony Hopkins says you just keep acting. Do it all the time and eventually it will happen. He got his break, after all, by taking a role nobody else wanted. A cannibal!
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I have been incredibly privileged with my roles - after all I have had the chance to do some fantastic fun acting such as the Spice Girls Movie - who can ever forget that!
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Always have an answer - even if you change your mind five minutes later.
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The fashion world is much more ephemeral than the film industry and moves at a faster pace, and it's got even more frenetic since the Nineties; more paparazzi hanging about and it seems to me there are even more fashion magazines.
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You finish a movie and you think, there, you've done it, really well, or best you can. But if you watch it, you see it was just bollocks.
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It always depresses me when people moan about how commercial Christmas is. I love everything about it. The tradition of having this great big feast, slap bang in the middle of winter, is an essential thing to look forward to at the end of the year.
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If you're doing well, you're a target, nobody's interested in you except how you can be of use to them.
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I am drawn to writing and directing as it is most like the feeling I had when I was a teenager with my puppet theatre. You are more in control of everything and involved in every aspect of production, so more challenged and fulfilled.
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Time and time again I was told that I would never make the film on time and never make it on budget. That kind of criticism tends to turn me into a great big motor of efficiency.
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I loved being asked 2,000 questions a day, storyboarding every move, knowing as though by instinct exactly where the camera had to be, because it was my story.
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I am a very judgmental person. Of myself and other people. I recognise it's a great fault, but I have no power over that.
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My father died prematurely at the age of 52 when I was 24, and it is a recurring regret that he never lived to see me succeed beyond university and drama.
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When an actor asks you to read his script, your heart sinks. The number of scripts I've been given by actors that are so unbelievably terrible!
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I would love to play your common, everyday guy, but I never get cast as that.
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Well, it's true that I've never been solitary, although I spend a lot of time alone. I've never felt lonely or been shy.
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Ensure that your script is watertight. If it's not on the page, it will never magically appear on the screen.
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I don't think it's the case that 'posh actors' get more work than others.
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I like fixing things.
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Actors always think that others are getting more work than them. In my case, they usually are.
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I would still like to go to the moon before I die.
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I watch TV all the time. Everything.
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When I came to England, the first director I met was Charles Sturridge, who told me, 'You speak like somebody out of the 1950s.
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Unless you are an enormous name, you never stop auditioning.
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It's well known that actors are lousy writers.
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When I meet a couple, I'm always interested to know if they have been together for a long time, or how loyal they are, because I know that will impact on how much I'm prepared to trust them.
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You feel your game's raised by working with the best people.
Richard E. Grant