Richard Grant Quotes & Sayings

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. — Richard Grant

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

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

It's well known that actors are lousy writers. — Richard Grant

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

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. — Richard Grant

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

At the same time I grew increasingly dissatisfied and irritable with what we are prone to call normal life. Except for wine, music, and books, I disliked shopping. Television grated on my nerves, the commercials in particular, so I got rid of the television. I found it harder and harder to rouse any interest in sports, celebrities, electronic gadgets, the chatter of the culture, the latest this or that. Nor did I have any desire to own a house, or get rich, or start a family. I wanted to keep traveling and see the world, live an eventful, unpredictable life with as much personal freedom as possible, and have a few adventures along the way. — Richard Grant

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! — Richard Grant