Quotes by Richard Grant

• Anthony Hopkins says you just keep acting. Do it all the time and eventually it will happen. He got his break, after all, by taking a role nobody else wanted. A cannibal!
• Time and time again I was told that I would never make the film on time and never make it on budget. That kind of criticism tends to turn me into a great big motor of efficiency.
• Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge.
• Never give up. You only get one life. Go for it!
• My father died prematurely at the age of 52 when I was 24, and it is a recurring regret that he never lived to see me succeed beyond university and drama.
• Ensure that your script is watertight. If it's not on the page, it will never magically appear on the screen.
• Always have an answer - even if you change your mind five minutes later.
• I am drawn to writing and directing as it is most like the feeling I had when I was a teenager with my puppet theatre. You are more in control of everything and involved in every aspect of production, so more challenged and fulfilled.
• The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose.
• 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.
• 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!
• It's well known that actors are lousy writers.
• If you're doing well, you're a target, nobody's interested in you except how you can be of use to them.
• 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.
• Swaziland is a small part of south-east Africa, the last country in the continent to gain its independence.