Richard E. Grant Net Worth

Richard E. Grant's Quotes

• I'm still star-struck. I'm thrilled to say that hasn't changed. I think it has a lot to do with coming from nowhere and going somewhere. Where I grew up all there was in live entertainment was a drive-in cinema. I'm very aware of the leap from there to here. Ultimately, I think I'm too curious and enthusiastic to take any of it for granted.
• 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! It's well known that actors are lousy writers.
• It's a chicken-and-egg situation: You've got to get name actors in order to get the finance, and in order to get the name actors you've got to bullshit that you've got the finance, while all the time you feel the whole thing could just unravel, the wheels come off the pram, everything conspires to make you sink into a pit of self-pity and despair.
• Hollywood is on what they call a shit tide, meaning a tide where stuff comes in and goes out very quickly. People come in, get a part in something, get in a magazine, then they go away and you never hear of them again. The sun shines, the level of paranoia is bottomless, and everybody you meet has an agenda. And that's it. Show business, 24 hours a day. If you're doing well, you're a target, nobody's interested in you except how you can be of use to them. And you can't engage with anyone, you can only engage with their agenda. It is all very antisex.
• What is there now? Famous people running away from explosions. That's it. They call it production values. Audiences will queue round the block to see an unimaginably highly paid film star running away from a fantastically expensive explosion. They think it's their money's worth. I despair that's what people have to do.

Interesting Facts about Richard E. Grant

1. Father of Olivia Grant.
2. One stepson, Tom
3. Studied English and drama at university in Capetown, South Africa.
4. His father was the last minister of education in the British colony of Swaziland before independence in 1968.
5. Played the Doctor in a line of BBC animated Doctor Who (1963) adventures showcased on the Internet.
6. Had a piano suite composed for him by Canadian artist Emm Gryner.
7. He was one of the guests at Prince Charles's and Camilla Parker-Bowles' wedding
8. Took part in a special celebrity edition of Blind Date on The Prince's Trust 30th Birthday: Live (2006). He and actor Sir Roger Moore lost to The X Factor (2004)'s Chico Slimani, who got to date Barry Humphries.
9. He has two roles in common with both David Collings and David Warner. (1) Collings played Bob Cratchit in Scrooge (1970), Warner played him in A Christmas Carol (1984) and Grant played him in A Christmas Carol (1999) and (2) Grant played the Doctor in Comic Relief: Doctor Who - The Curse of Fatal Death (1999) and Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka (2003), Collings played him in the Big Finish audio drama "Full Fathom Five" and Warner played him in the Big Finish audio dramas "Sympathy for the Devil" and "Masters of War".
10. He was also the narrator/performer for Bram Stoker's Dracula Book on tape.
11. Is allergic to alcohol. He can have a drink and keep it down for about 10 minutes, but will be severely ill for 24 hours afterward.
12. Loves new smells. Richard believes that smells evoke memories, so he loves to smell new books, cars, sofas, people.
13. Wears two watches. The one on his right wrist was given to him by his late father and has Swaziland time. The one on his left wrist is set to British time.
14. The initial E in his name came about because there was already someone registered with Equity as Richard Grant. Richard was born Richard Grant Esterhuysen. So with permission of the other Richard Grant and Equity, he added the E. to his name.
15. According to his Wah-Wah Diaries, he was offered a major role in the remake of Flight of the Phoenix (2004).
16. He has two roles in common with his Corpse Bride (2005) co-star Christopher Lee: (1) Lee played Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock Holmes und das Halsband des Todes (1962), Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (1991) and Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls (1992) while Grant played him in The Other Side (1992) and (2) Lee played Holmes' brother Mycroft Holmes in The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) while Grant played him in Sherlock (2002).
17. Unlike other actors to take on the role of The Doctor ("Doctor Who") in their careers, he is the only one to play the role ("Scream of the Shalka") before returning as another major character in the series ("The Snowmen" as Dr. Simeon/The Great Intelligence).
18. Attended the wedding of media mogul Rupert Murdoch to former model Jerry Hall in 2016.
19. Stated in The Secret World of Lewis Carroll (2015) that Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll is one of his favorite books and that he has re-read it every year since he was seven.
20. Nominated for the 2019 Golden Globe Award in the Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture category for his role as Jack Hock in Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018), but lost to Mahershala Ali for Green Book (2018).