Happy birthday, Hugh Grant! The British actor turns 56 on September 9, 2016.
A handful of Grant’s early blockbuster romcoms, namely 1994’s Four Weddings and a Funeral and 1999’s Notting Hill, solidified his reputation as a charming, bumbling, almost painfully British leading man.
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The award-winning actor has fought against that on-screen persona over the years, playing against type in films including Bridget Jones’s Diary, Small Time Crooks and Cloud Atlas. But while he’s proven his impressive range as a performer, his turns as the witty, self-effacing romantic lead will never grow any less endearing.
Launch the gallery to read some of Grant’s most romantic movie quotes from Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill and his other classic romcoms.
Natalie [talking about her ex-boyfriend]: He says no one's gonna fancy a girl with thighs the size of big tree trunks. Not a nice guy, actually, in the end.
Prime Minister [Hugh Grant]: Ah! You know, um, being Prime Minister, I could just have him murdered.
Natalie: Thank you, sir. I'll think about it.
Prime Minister: Do. The SAS are absolutely charming. Ruthless trained killers are just a phone call away.
—Love Actually
“There I was, standing there in the church, and for the first time in my whole life I realized I totally and utterly loved one person. And it wasn't the person next to me in the veil. It's the person standing opposite me now...in the rain.”
—Four Weddings and a Funeral
“Love actually is all around.”
—Love Actually
Anna Scott: Can I stay for a while?
William: You can stay forever.
—Notting Hill
Anna: [laughs] Yeah. Rita Hayworth used to say, "They go to bed with Gilda, they wake up with me."
William: Who's Gilda?
Anna: Her most famous part. Men went to bed with the dream, they didn't like it when they'd wake up with the reality. Do you feel that way?
William: You are lovelier this morning than you have ever been.
—Notting Hill
“For twenty-five years I’ve kept the mockers and scoffers at bay. I’m very well aware of what they might do, but Florence has been my life, I love her, and I think you love her too. Hm? Singing at Carnegie Hall is her dream and I’m going to give it to her.”
—Florence Foster Jenkins
"I've come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is, and always will be, yours.”
—Sense and Sensibility
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