Hugh Grant - in The Media

In The Media

Grant has repeatedly spoken about his boredom with playing the celebrity in the press and is known in popular media for his guarded privacy, About the culture of celebrity, he told Vogue, "My theory is that it's like bodybuilders who inject testosterone, which means that their own powers to generate testosterone shut down forever. The fake esteem you get from being in the public eye feels like self-worth, but actually your own powers to produce it shut down. The stuff that really counts is your own. And that's, I think, why people go bonkers." On probing of his personal life, he has remained incredibly steadfast in "offering a dead bat to any question he feels is not general enough." Meanwhile, acquaintances portray him as a complicated man with an anarchic and sharp constitution. "There is at least as much of Hugh that is charismatic, intellectual, and whose tongue," according to Mike Newell, "is maybe too clever for its own good as there is of him that's gorgeous and kind of woolly and flubsy." Filmmaker Paul Weitz, calling Grant funny, observed that "he perceives flaws in himself and other people, and then he cares about their humanity nonetheless." British newspapers regularly refer to him as grumpy.