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" I was in a lake in 'Love Actually', and I was attacked by some hideous aquatic beast and was rushed to the hospital by a man named Rafael! Something stung my elbow, and it blew up to the size of a tennis ball. "

Colin Firth

Lake

Beast

Size

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Face

Look

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Life

Respect

" Most actors will tell you they have some sort of dream of doing something other than what they're doing. "

" The last thing I would attempt to do is to buy clothes for a child I didn't know well. "

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Every Day

Pay

" The thing is that anybody looks good in the right clothes. It will affect your bearing. It will affect your demeanor. It informs the way you behave. "

" I backpacked through France and Italy in my teens, and then I was at Cannes with the first movie I did in '84. "

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Play

Playing

" If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there. "

" 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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My Own

Sex

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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. "

" 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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Work

Respect

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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. "

" I'd love to try my hand at something else. "

" 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. "