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• Hugh Grant: I Haven't Given Up On Having Children

  posted by Jane Green, Parade - Thu Nov 19 2009, 11:06 AM PST

  celebs: Hugh Grant | Sarah Jessica Parker | Sandra Bullock
  topics: Hotties | Kids

  Jeff Lipsky/Parade In this week's issue of Parade, Hugh Grant talks to best-selling British author Jane Green about wanting children, finding long-term love, and his new film, "Did You Hear About the Morgans," with Sarah Jessica Parker. Check out the excerpts below, then read the full interview on Parade.com on Friday, November 20.
  
  Embracing the prospect of fatherhood.
  "Ten years ago, I wouldn't have thought about having children at all. But now I have so many nephews and nieces and cousins and godchildren, I like the thought. But that's on the basis that I can leave after 10 minutes. I don't know what it would be like 24 hours a day. I think I'd have a lot of nannies."

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  Does he think he'll have children?
  "Yes, yes, yes. I haven't given up hope."
  
  Does he think he would be a good dad?
  "Yes, I do rather. I find I'm not as bad with children as I used to be."
  
  His hands-off approach to parenthood.
  "I see a lot of children over-parented now, by my standards. Over-adored, over-spoiled. I quite like the children left alone to get on with it."

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  Indulging in a hobby that is increasingly taking over his life.
  "I'm very embarrassed about my golf habit. It's awful. I wish it had never happened to me. I used to have a well-rounded personality, many interests, and now I don't really care about anything except golf. I went as a joke [12 years ago]. But I quite liked it. I used to be a big reader. Now I read Dave Pelz's Putting Bible."

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  As a child, he was always putting on plays for the grown-ups.
  "Well, it wasn't me who dressed everyone up in curtains. It was my aunts. But it is true to say I always thought I was the best actor, and I did feel that way at school. It doesn't mean to say I thought, 'I want to do this for a living.' I never felt that."
  
  His life seems to have settled down some now.
  "My laziness is really profound. I'm really interested in where it comes from -- it almost feels chemical. And we've all got ADD now, short attention span and all that. I found by far the best drug for calming me down is to go out at 5 in the morning and run for 45 minutes. And although I'm calm, I don't really find life as funny as I do if I'm more miserable and tense."
  
  His thoughts on what he calls 'love avoidance.'
  "If you have a smothering parent, the effect it can apparently have on a child is to give them, in equal doses, a sense of too much self-esteem, because they are mummy's little princess or prince, and low self-esteem. It affects future relationships. You want to repeat this smothering thing, and you are very adept at bringing people in to love you, and as soon as they get close enough, you push them away. Then you bring them back and push them away again. You can go on torturing people like that for ages."

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  Loving his leading ladies.
  "I loved Bullock. And I really love Sarah Jessica. I adore her. She's very, very original. And funny. Very clever. These girls are amusing and bubbly and charming. You can't act that. You have to be that."

  What's your favorite Hugh Grant flick?

  • About a Boy
  • Bridget Jones' Diary
  • Four Weddings and a Funeral
  • Love Actually
  • Music and Lyrics
  • Notting Hill
  • Sense and Sensibility

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