Editing Hugh Grant (section)

==Personality==
Grant has expressed boredom with playing the celebrity in the press<ref>{{cite news|first=Michelle|last=Kung|title=Fashioning Hugh into a proper pop star|page=13|url=https://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2007/02/11/fashioning_hugh_into_a_proper_pop_star/|work=The Boston Globe|date=11 February 2007|access-date=11 September 2007}}</ref> and is known in the media for his guarded privacy.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hellomagazine.com/celebrities/2008/06/08/hugh-gala-mum-speech/|title=Hugh Grant pays a moving tribute to his mother at charity dinner|work=Hello!|date=8 June 2008|access-date=12 June 2008}}</ref> On probing of his personal life, he has remained steadfast in "offering a dead bat to any question he feels is not general enough".<ref>{{cite news|first=Lawrie|last=Masterson|title=Taken for granted|page=A06|work=[[The Mercury (Hobart)|Sunday Tasmanian]]|date=23 April 2006}}</ref> He has described himself as a reluctant actor, has called being a successful actor a mistake and has repeatedly talked of his hope that film stardom would just be "a phase" in his life, lasting no more than ten years.<ref name="runaway bachelor">{{cite news|first=Kamp|last=David|title=Runaway bachelor|issn=0733-8899|magazine=Vanity Fair|page=170|url=http://hughgrant.free.fr/Interviews/vanityfair.html|access-date=23 July 2018|date=1 May 2003}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Thompson|first=Bob|title=Shrug, actually: "Hugh Said, Drew Said"|work=[[National Post]]|page=TO30|date=27 January 2007}}</ref>

A 2007 ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]'' profile referred to him as a man with a "professionally misanthropic mystique".<ref name="reluctant romeo"/> He has expressed distaste for [[focus group]]s, [[market research]], and emphasis on [[opening weekend]] box-office numbers, saying: "It's so destructive to the filmmaking process. What was wrong with the way they used to release films, more slowly, let them build?"<ref>{{cite news|first=Rick|last=Lyman|title=Sweating Out The Numbers|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/20/movies/at-the-movies.html|work=The New York Times|date=20 August 1999|access-date=11 September 2007}}</ref> The director [[Mike Newell (director)|Mike Newell]] has said: "There is at least as much of Hugh that is charismatic, intellectual, and whose tongue is maybe too clever for its own good as there is of him that's gorgeous and kind of woolly and flubsy."<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Benjamin|last=Svetkey|title=Cover Story: 7 HUGH GRANT|url=https://ew.com/article/1994/12/30/entertainer-7-hugh-grant/|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|date=30 December 1994|access-date=21 September 2007}}</ref> Filmmaker Paul Weitz said that Grant is funny and that "he perceives flaws in himself and other people, and then he cares about their humanity nonetheless".<ref>{{cite news|first=Merle|last=Ginsberg|title=True Hugh|url=http://www.style.com/w/feat_story/032102/full_page.html|work=[[W (magazine)|W]]|date=April 2002|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070814030053/http://www.style.com/w/feat_story/032102/full_page.html|archive-date=14 August 2007}}</ref> British newspapers regularly refer to him as [[:wikt:grumpy|"grumpy"]].<ref>{{cite news|first=Janice|last=Turner|title=In this girls' world, boys are deviants|work=[[The Times]] |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/janice_turner/article507846.ece|date=29 January 2005|access-date=19 September 2007}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

Grant is a self-confessed "committed and passionate" perfectionist on a film set.<ref name="bridget jones interview">{{cite web|title=Bridget Jones's Diary: Interview With Hugh Grant|publisher=cinema.com|url=http://www.cinema.com/articles/332/bridget-joness-diary-interview-with-hugh-grant.phtml|access-date=10 October 2007}}</ref> The American film critic [[Dave Kehr]] has written that Grant "is known in the film industry as a meticulous performer who takes his time to prepare a role – someone who works hard to make it look easy – though that isn't a trait he admires in himself".<ref name="natural does it"/> He is noted by co-workers for demanding endless takes until he achieves the desired shot according to his own standard.<ref name="reluctant romeo"/><ref>{{cite news|first=Liza|last=Foreman|title=Curtis, Grant team for boffo B.O.|work=Variety|pages=A8|date=16 December 2002}}</ref><ref>{{cite episode|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1497577|title=Richard Curtis discusses his new film, 'Love Actually'|series=Weekend Edition Saturday|network=[[National Public Radio|NPR]]|credits= Presenter: [[Scott Simon]]|air-date=8 November 2003}}</ref>

He dropped his agent in 2006, ending a 10-year relationship with [[Creative Artists Agency|CAA]].<ref>{{cite news|first=Michael|last=Fleming|title=Grant has alone time|work=Variety|page=4|date=30 November 2006}}</ref> He has proclaimed in interviews that he does not listen to external views on his career: "They've known for years that I have total control. I've never taken any advice on anything."<ref name="reluctant romeo"/><ref name="Thorpe"/>