Richard E. Grant

My parents were divorced when I was 11, and it made such a profound impression on my life that I suppose I thought that by not getting married, you could avoid your life being carved in two.

I think I have a romantic idea of life; I certainly have a romantic outlook. I think. I hope.

The movies are something that I've been obsessed with, and I've subscribed to movie magazines all my life, since I was a child.

Never give up. You only get one life. Go for it!

I was brought up to appreciate the here and now, and, knowing this is your only life, to view death as an inevitable and reassuring end.

I've kept a diary since I was 11. It's a way of taking stock, almost meditative, trying to make sense of stuff because life is chaotic.

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!

The ease and pleasure of a long marriage is like gold dust. You feel fed and sustained and that you're intimately known.

I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.

Well, it's true that I've never been solitary, although I spend a lot of time alone. I've never felt lonely or been shy.

When I meet a couple, I'm always interested to know if they have been together for a long time, or how loyal they are, because I know that will impact on how much I'm prepared to trust them.

My father was an alcoholic. I come from a family of them, so it's genetic luck or malfunction that I've ended up with no enzyme that processes it. I literally can't drink.