"I'm not a hopeless romantic. I'm quite the reverse. I'm a nasty piece of work, an ego maniac." — Hugh Grant

Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred.

My mother was a teacher.

Frankly, I think I'm marvelous in rehearsal! Then you turn the camera on, and it gets stiff and tight. And then you trudge back to your trailer feeling sad. That's been my experience of film acting.

The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny.