Richard Grant

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!

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

If you're doing well, you're a target, nobody's interested in you except how you can be of use to them.

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.

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.

If you're doing well, you're a target, nobody's interested in you except how you can be of use to them.

It's well known that actors are lousy writers.

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

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