Richard Grant Quotes (12 Quotes)

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

They want to keep growth rates down to about 10 percent a year. They don't want to go back to the growth rates of between 17 and 20 percent because that's where the inflationary pressure kicks in,

If China does what it says it will do and it respects the Hong Kong way of life, ... they will continue to prosper along with everyone else in Hong Kong.

You've got to protect the old bravado.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I'm elated, but 15 years of hard work unfortunately had to go south. I feel sorry for anything that happened in the past but I'm going to move on.