Richard Grant Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

Audiences will queue round the block to see an unimaginably highly-paid film star running away from a fantastically expensive explosion. They think it's their money's worth. I despair that's what people have to do.

I felt like the boy with the biggest train set, more Meccano gear than anyone else.

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.

If you're doing well, you're a target, nobody's interested in you except how you can be of use to them.

It's well known that actors are lousy writers.

People come in, get a part in something, get in a magazine, then they go away and you never hear of them again.

Swaziland is a small part of south-east Africa, the last country in the continent to gain its independence.

The curious thing about Swaziland is that it is a one-tribe, single-language country, so, unlike almost everywhere else in Africa, they never had any intertribal warfare.

The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose.

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!

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.

You have to look at the discrepancy between what you hoped and imagined and the reality of yourself and all your shortcomings.

You've got to protect the old bravado.