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I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really.


Hugh Grant

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HUGH LAURIE I have done many movies that people hadn't seen. 'The Fountain,' I spent a year on that....
HUGH JACKMAN Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, ...
HUGH LAURIE I find that kid actors are great reminders of the simplicity of acting. As you get older, you can so...
HUGH JACKMAN I think there is a basic comfort in clever people who know things.
HUGH LAURIE The Westwood Cemetery is just a few blocks from my home, and a number of my very dear friends are bu...
HUGH HEFNER I think pain is a very - it's an extremely hard thing to empathize moment to moment. And you oft...
HUGH LAURIE Perfectionism is a slow death....If everything were to turn out just as I would want it, just as I w...
HUGH PRATHER I think that the American people should rest assured and be assured that every federal agency that h...
HUGH SHELTON A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hem...
HUGH MACKAY The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life wa...
HUGH HEFNER Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that - we p...
HUGH JACKMAN Both my parents are English and came out to Australia in 1967. I was born the following year. My par...
HUGH JACKMAN I love food, all types of food. I love Korean food, Japanese, Italian, French. In Australia, we don&...
HUGH JACKMAN The most scared I'd ever been was the first time I sang at a rugby match, Australia versus New Z...
HUGH JACKMAN I suspect the secret of personal attraction is locked up in our unique imperfections, flaws and frai...
HUGH MACKAY Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And wh...
HUGH PRATHER A mentor long departed told me that the greatest gift in political life, in any life, is to view you...
HUGH CAREY A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a...
HUGH SIDEY