Hugh Grant

I don't think there's much point in putting me a deep, dark, heavy, emotional film because there are people who do it so much better than I do.

Something about teaching is curiously attractive, actually. I don't know what it is.

Plus, teaching brings home to you very fast that you actually know nothing. I didn't realize that before.

With 2 movies opening this summer, I have no relaxing time at all. Whatever I have is spent in a drunken stupor.

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.

In 'The Sound of Music,' I was a von Trapp daughter in a white dress with a blue satin sash, and my line was, 'I'm Brigitta. I'm 12, and all I want is a good time.' I got a laugh. And I was so delighted, I laughed, too. Sadly, that's a problem I still have - onstage, I laugh hysterically at how funny I am.

I find it hard to understand why Scorsese has never called. You know, given the natural menace I bring to the screen.

I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book. But the awful truth is that I... probably can't!

I've driven people mad on films that I've made - I want more takes; I want to try new lines. Then I want to interfere in the editing process, and I want to interfere in the advertising process - everything, everything. Pretty much Barbra Streisand in trousers, I am!

I get very annoyed when people think I'm nice or diffident or a polite English gentleman. I'm a nasty piece of work, and people should know that.

I'm not a hopeless romantic. I'm quite the reverse. I'm a nasty piece of work, an ego maniac.

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