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Colin Firth is a renowned British film actor, best known for his Academy Award-winning performance in 'The King's Speech'. His career spans a variety of film and television roles, including 'Pride and Prejudice', 'Atonement', and 'The Goldfinch'.

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“So, you don't have laughs as a reference point any more, it becomes a bit of a science after that. And the last thing, you would love to be able to depend on a sense of spontaneity, but hours of waiting and then hours of repetition are not conducive to spontaneity so those are your obstacles. On the other hand it's a lot of fun. Plunging into a bit of physical comedy and abandoning all dignity, no one can really hurt you much after you much after that, once you've done it.”

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“Just driving I just was in a car on flat ground and I couldn't make it go. Having ticked driving and taken three driving lessons, I just was unable to produce any motion whatsoever under perfectly normal circumstances. I think we've all been busted on driving, and riding.”

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“I like playing strange characters. Some people might say it has something to do with a hidden part of myself, but I think it's a lot simpler than that: normal people are just not very interesting.”

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“I'm just the last English twit, really.”

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“Maybe it's shallow of me to have a wife that's so beautiful, but it makes things easier. To me she's the most beautiful woman in the world.”

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“'La Dolce Vita' made we want to go to Rome and, if not jump into the Trevi Fountain, at least watch someone else do it. Maybe that's why I married an Italian...!”

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“If I were to write a book about the progress of getting to a third film, it would be a long one.”

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“I can actually get involved in getting stories off the ground that no one would ask me to be in because I'm the wrong age, the wrong sex, the wrong nationality, or whatever. I've found it quite exhilarating to have that freedom to tell the stories that aren't just about middle-aged white English guys.”

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“What infuriates me is that in America violence is judged in context, whereas language is not. So with language there is an arithmetic that says: one f*** is a PG 13, two f***s is an R. They don't say: one bullet through one head is a PG 13, two bullets through more than two heads is an R.”

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“I had heard all sorts of stories about Woody Allen's directing - directorial approach. And some of them turned out to be myth. But, one of them was that he doesn't rehearse and another was that he doesn't really direct, if he doesn't like it...he cuts it out of the movie, or even replaces you.”

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“I feel more comfortable in drama. Comedy's is a high-wire act. I find it stressful. It's a precision science, in a way. And when you're filming, the thing comedy depends on becomes a much more difficult commodity. The thing you depend on is spontaneity.”

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“In filming you're waiting. You're waiting for lights. You're waiting for people set things up. And when you're not waiting, you're repeating. And neither is conducive to spontaneity, you know. Comedy makes you very, very neurotic because you think, I - but did I nail it?”

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“It's a very dangerous state. You are inclined to recklessness and kind of tune out the rest of your life and everything that's been important to you. It's actually not all that pleasurable. I don't know who the hell wants to get in a situation where you can't bear an hour without somebody's company.”

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“I love you even when you're sick and look disgusting.”

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“When I'm really into a novel, I'm seeing the world differently during that time— not just for the hour or so in the day when I get to read. I'm actually walking around in a haze, spellbound by the book and looking at everything through a different prism.”

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“It does help to actually realize that however stunning the person who is, you know, fluttering eyelashes at you, she doesn't do anything to match up to your wife.”

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“Whenever you take on playing a villain, he has to cease to be a villain to you. If you judge this man by his time, he's doing very little wrong.”

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“Looking in the mirror, staring back at me isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.”

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“You have to be ill if you want to get better.”

Ifs Want Ill Get Better

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“I'll be your friend so long as you're not crap”

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“Hollywood hasn't aggressively pursued me. Neither have I aggressively pursued Hollywood.”

Hollywood Pursued

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“Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering.”

Flattering Bridget Jones

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“I do notice that when I've been away and I come back to London. People look at you. People are ready to pick arguments.”

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“I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year.”

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“I was gearing up for it. I took some singing lessons. And I opened my mouth, and Atom promptly said, 'That's not going to happen. We love your voice, but maybe we could use some of your English wit.' He had doubts about it from way back. For starters, we weren't going to be doing the Italian-American crooning thing.”

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“One of my grandfathers, actually, having gone out there as a minister, decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age - at the age of 38 in fact - he changed course and decided to become a doctor.”

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“The failure so far of the governments of so many of the worlds most powerful countries in the face of such egregious unfairness ... to make the slightest progress on the issue of fair trade is hard to explain.”

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“When I visited coffee farms in Ethiopia, the farmers could not believe we spend a week's wages in their country on a cup of coffee in ours, because they see so little of the profits. Oxfam's fair trade campaign helps right this wrong.”

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“People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different.”

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“Actors are basically drag queens. People will tell you they act because they want to heal mankind or, you know, explore the nature of the human psyche. Yes, maybe. But basically we just want to put on a frock and dance.”

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“I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky.”

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“I never saw myself as Mr. Ugly, but I'm not that handsome. I can sort of be made to look quite a lot better or quite a lot worse.”

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“I'm fully aware that if I were to change professions tomorrow, become an astronaut and be the first man to land on Mars, the headlines in the newspapers would read: `Mr. Darcy Lands on Mars.”

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“I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree.”

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“We've always been involved with America - I have a son who lives there and it's a big part of my life.”

Bigs America Son Involved

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“Because I am an Englishman I spent most of my life in a state of embarrassment.”

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“I think that London is very much like that. I find there's humour in the air and people are interesting. And I think that it's a place which is constantly surprising. The worst thing about it? I think it can be smug and aggressive.”

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“I thought I was managing my expectations, but on hearing the news I discovered new and unfamiliar vocal tones. Perhaps I should do another musical.”

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“I don't know if this qualifies as gentle reassurance, but right now this is all that stands between me and a Harley-Davidson.”

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“My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.”

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“Forget trying to be sexy. That's just gruesome.”

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“I absolutely don't care about my looks and I'm so used to them that I wouldn't change a thing. I would end up missing my defects.”

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“I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent.”

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“As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but I'm not greedy for that stuff.”

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“I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.”

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“Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real.”

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“I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends.”

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“It used to be that I was always paranoid or a loser or something so there's usually something that you seem to associate yourself with at one time or another.”

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“I do think I'm a character actor.”

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“I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird.”

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About the Author

Born: September 10, 1960
Known for: Film actor
Quotes: 112

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