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Hugh Grant

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About Hugh Grant

Hugh John Mungo Grant is an English actor. He established himself early in his career as a charming and vulnerable romantic leading man, and has since transitioned into a character actor. His accolades include a British Academy Film Award and a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards. He received an Honorary César in 2006. In 2022, Time Out magazine listed Grant as one of Britain's 50 greatest actors of all time. As of 2025, his films have grossed over US$4 billi…

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Topics: Experience Failure Fear Romantic Technology Women
Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred.
For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.
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.
For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.
The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.
But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.