Hugh Grant Quotes

When I first started out, I was a bad actor.

I got into acting classes. I didn't want to just go by luck.

I want to challenge myself as an actor.

I'm still learning and trying to become a better actor. I still feel insecurity.

I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way.

As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I've really opened up a lot.

I played Romeo when I was younger, and I think I did a couple kind Romeo-like parts after that, and I kind of went, 'I mustn't do this again. I must always choose something that I don't know if I'm a good enough actor to play.'

I was an actor for over a year before I ever saw a play.

I was terrible in my first play. After that experience, I had to face that I wasn't good enough to play with the big boys. I had to go away and learn, so I worked in regional theater for three years. I even understudied at the Kennedy Center.

The last person to teach me how to act was my A-level Theatre Studies teacher at school, which I literally still draw on. Got an A!

It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor.

I knew absolutely nothing about acting, and had to be taught everything. Some people are born naturals and know how to walk, talk and hold themselves. I didn't and had to learn everything.

I'm not a solid enough actor to have techniques.

In high school, my first thing ever was I played Tony in 'West Side Story' when I was about 17. I was a really shy kid, and I just, like, forced myself to learn how to sing this one month because I loved 'West Side Story' so much, and I somehow managed to get the role.

I always wanted to be an actor, even as a little kid. So I went to drama school in the late '60s at Carnegie Mellon.

I'm not a natural-born actor. So it's been a very slow learning curve for me.

It took many years of acting classes to get even remotely comfortable, but that's OK. It helped me so much on a personal level, not to mention professionally.

I'm a terrible actor. I'm still learning. When I first started, I wish I knew then to trust myself more, really. I was in a terrible panic in the early part of my career.

One of the things I love about acting is that there is always scope for growth.

I realised that if I wanted to act, I needed to join theatre where I could improve my acting skills first and also show my talent.

I pray and try every day to be a better actor.

I would love to act. I probably won't make it to Hollywood at 42 years of age, but I'd love to act.

Backstage life is terrific training for an actor, seeing shows from the wings.

You're always dealing with emotions as an actor.

No actor ever forgets a role, so I should have realized something was wrong.