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Richard E. Grant

Richard E. Grant (born Richard Grant Esterhuysen; 5 May 1957) is a Swazi-English actor, screenwriter, director and perfumier. He came to public attention in 1987 for playing Withnail in the film Withnail and I, and achieved recognition as John Seward in the 1992 film Bram Stoker's Dracula. He played Dr. Zander Rice in the 2017 superhero film Logan and Izembaro in the sixth season of the HBO series Game of Thrones.

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

Target, Use, Wells, Except, Interested

Ensure that your script is watertight. If it's not on the page, it will never magically appear on the screen.

Appear, Directors, Ensure, Page, Pages, Scripts

I watch TV all the time. Everything.

Watches, Tvs, Watch, Time, Everything

It always depresses me when people moan about how commercial Christmas is. I love everything about it. The tradition of having this great big feast, slap bang in the middle of winter, is an essential thing to look forward to at the end of the year.

Christmas, Commercial, Depressing, Essential, Middle, Winter

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.

Asked, Cameras, Day, Knowing, Moving, Story

I have been incredibly privileged with my roles - after all I have had the chance to do some fantastic fun acting such as the Spice Girls Movie - who can ever forget that!

Girl, Fun, Acting, Incredibly, Girls

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!

Acting, Roles, Break, Time, Happen

You feel your game's raised by working with the best people.

Games, People, Raised, Working

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.

Alone, Alone Time, Felt, Lonely, Shy

It's well known that actors are lousy writers.

Actors, Lousy, Well Known, Wells, Writers

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.

Loyalty, Forgiving, Impossible, Premium, Rationally, Forgive

My father died prematurely at the age of 52 when I was 24, and it is a recurring regret that he never lived to see me succeed beyond university and drama.

Died, Drama, Father, Regret, See, Succeed

Always have an answer - even if you change your mind five minutes later.

Mind, Answers, Minutes, Change, Five

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!

Heart, Numbers, Actors, Scripts, Unbelievably

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.

Thinking, Watches, Done, Watch, Think

I would still like to go to the moon before I die.

Die, Dies, Like, Moon, Stills

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.

Couple, Impact, Long, Know, Trust

I like fixing things.

Fixing, Fixing Things, Like, Things

I am drawn to writing and directing as it is most like the feeling I had when I was a teenager with my puppet theatre. You are more in control of everything and involved in every aspect of production, so more challenged and fulfilled.

Teenager, Writing, Feelings, Directing, Aspect, Everything

Time and time again I was told that I would never make the film on time and never make it on budget. That kind of criticism tends to turn me into a great big motor of efficiency.

Criticism, Efficiency, Film, Kind, Make, Told

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