“I used to pre-rehearse everything and then bring my pre-rehearsed perf...” — Hugh Grant Quote

I used to pre-rehearse everything and then bring my pre-rehearsed performance to the set. Now, I'm learning to let it happen in the moment. American actors are much better at that than British actors. If I knew how to trust myself, I would have been much more relaxed. Maybe I would have less gray hairs today.

I always admire the French and the Italians who are very devoted to their marriages. They take them extremely seriously, but it is understood that there might be other visitors at 5 o'clock in the afternoon. You just never boast about. They never say anything, but that's what keeps marriages together.

I don't do much acting anymore anyway, and not to work for 20th Century Fox is really the least of my worries.

I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really.

Suits are malevolent magicians' sleeves for socialists, full of patrician loops and tricks, small, embroidered, cryptic messages of deference and privilege. They are ever the uniform of the enemy. They are also the greatest British invention ever.

British multiculturalism is the jewel in our crown. We should be celebrating it in every environment. People of colour should not just be washing dishes.

I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.

In the early 20th century the monarchy was held up as the archetypical virtuous British family. In the late 20th century it became the most wonderful symbol of the complete re-engineering of family structures.