Colin Firth Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Because I am an Englishman I spent most of my life in a state of embarrassment.”
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“Nothing brings you closer together than blind terror.”
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“I work with the options I have in front of me and my reasons for choosing a job can vary enormously depending on the circumstances. Sometimes I take a job because it's a group of people I'm dying to work with, and sometimes it can be a desire to shake things up a bit and not to take myself too seriously.”
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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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“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'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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“My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.”
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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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“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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“You have to be ill if you want to 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.”
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“Forget trying to be sexy. That's just gruesome.”
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“I have a kind of neutrality, physically, which has helped me. I have a face that can be made to look a lot better - or a lot worse.”
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“To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all.”
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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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“Looking in the mirror, staring back at me isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.”
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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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“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 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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“I love you even when you're sick and look disgusting.”
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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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“My looks aren't something that come dazzlingly through in everything I do. I can be made to look one way or the other fairly easily... I am still not recognised on the street that much.”
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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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“On his fight scene with Hugh Grant in Bridget Jones: It was a delicious experience.”
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“My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?”
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“My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.”
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“True nobility is being superior to your former self.”
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“I'm not patient, and some things drive me crazy. In my work, I get incredibly upset when people don't get it right or don't respect others' needs.”
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