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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. "
Colin Firth
Face
Me
Look
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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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" 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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" To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all. "
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" In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class Englishman adrift in smalltown America and that has definitely been me. "
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" I've gotten involved in producing now, so the kinds of things that are more my own choice are more possible in that field because I don't have to be castable. 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. "
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" The last thing I would attempt to do is to buy clothes for a child I didn't know well. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" It's a film called 'Kursk', which is a true story about a submarine disaster. There was an accident on board a Russian submarine in the year 2000, and it stranded a large number of sailors. That's next. "
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" I think that, often, actors represent what they're not. You get people who define the aristocracy who are not aristocratic - they're lower-middle class or working class. An awful lot of your so-called angry young actors have grown up in extreme bourgeois comfort. It really is surprisingly common. "
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You
Angry
Comfort
" 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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America
Relationship
" We are actors who show up for work in our sloppy gear, and we've got this extraordinary tailor. It's someone else who's done the design; someone else who's cut the suit; someone else who's measured it. Basically, your job is to just wear it. "
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Done
Design
" 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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Missing
Looks
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" Something like 'A Single Man,' it was tiny; it was financed by one guy. We all lost money doing it. "
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Lost
Man
Money
" 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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Work
People
" My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s. "
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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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" As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but I'm not greedy for that stuff. "
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Want
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" Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering. "
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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 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 do think I'm a character actor. "
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" Some people would say comedy draws from some dark places, from your dark stuff. Life's great optimists aren't necessarily the funniest people. "
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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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" Forget trying to be sexy. That's just gruesome. "
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Trying
" The only reason I'm in 'Kingsman' is because Matthew enjoys playing with the unexpected. I'm not playing Harry Hart because I'm the butchest actor in Britain. I'm playing it because he said I'm the last person anyone would expect to see in that role! "
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Said
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" People coming up and saying something nice is always welcome. But when you're being secretly photographed, that's not so nice. I would rather shake hands with someone and exchange a few words than take a selfie. "
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" They're not bombarding me with offers, although the ones that have come along have been too preposterous to contemplate, so it's not as if I spend every day resisting $20 million pay cheques. "
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