"Frankly, I think I'm marvelous in rehearsal! Then you turn the camera on, and it gets stiff and tigh..." — Hugh Grant

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

My mother was a teacher.

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.

I never meant to be in romantic comedies; it's just what ended up happening. But they are tricky, in a post-1960s sexual revolution way. It was easier when you couldn't have sex scenes: everything crackled very nicely. They're not easy.