British - Actor | May 5, 1957 -
Lena Dunham is an extraordinary woman.
Richard E. Grant
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I wrestle every opportunity with gusto.
The ease and pleasure of a long marriage is like gold dust. You feel fed and sustained and that you're intimately known.
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Every time I try to plan something or assume that something's going to happen, it never works out like that.
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I went to a school called Waterford Kamhlaba, and 'Kamhlaba' is what the king of Swaziland called the school because... in siSwati, it means 'all the world in one.'
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I've been an actor for so long, and a moviegoer ever since I can remember, because the country that I grew up in didn't have television.
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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.
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Because I grew up in Africa, I always see people and try to understand characters as what kind of animal they'd be.
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I always panic on the first day of work. You can do all the Stanislavsky-backstory homework, but when that moment arrives and you are in the clothes, hair, and makeup of somebody else, and you're saying the words created by somebody else - I never know how to do it. It's a complete mystery to me.
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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.
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I've been on the 'Logan' movie set, which is a 300-strong crew of basically men. They had arms thicker than my thighs stuck together.
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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.
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