"I'd like to have the flying car, I think that'd be really cool"
About this Quote
The intent is disarmingly simple: to register wonder. But the subtext is about the strange bargain of celebrity. Actors are constantly asked to be profound on demand, and Grint sidesteps that trap by leaning into boyish specificity. "I'd like to have" sounds domestic, almost sheepish, like he's ordering from a catalogue rather than proposing a future. Then he seals it with the most defensible, least litigable justification imaginable: coolness. No ideology, no tech-utopian sermon, just a vibe.
Context matters here: late-20th/early-21st-century pop culture trained audiences to expect a Jetsons tomorrow that never arrived. The flying car is the shorthand for broken futuristic promises, the icon of a future that keeps getting delayed. Grint's line taps that collective frustration and re-routes it into play. It's not innovation he is craving so much as permission to be delighted again, to have the kind of impossible toy that fiction once made feel inevitable.
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Grint, Rupert. (2026, January 16). I'd like to have the flying car, I think that'd be really cool. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/id-like-to-have-the-flying-car-i-think-thatd-be-112977/
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Grint, Rupert. "I'd like to have the flying car, I think that'd be really cool." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/id-like-to-have-the-flying-car-i-think-thatd-be-112977/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I'd like to have the flying car, I think that'd be really cool." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/id-like-to-have-the-flying-car-i-think-thatd-be-112977/. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.











