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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. "
Colin Firth
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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 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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" In filming, you're waiting - you're waiting for lights, you're waiting for people to set things up - and when you're not waiting, you're repeating. "
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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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" My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem. "
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" I would definitely do TV, at the drop of a hat, if I was offered a good role. "
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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'd love to try my hand at something else. "
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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. "
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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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" 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 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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" I love 'Manhattan', and I know it's not one of Woody's favorites. "
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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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Know
" Growing up, my mates and I would have rather been Sid Vicious or members of the Royal Family. "
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Growing Up
Growing
" 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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" Most actors will tell you they have some sort of dream of doing something other than what they're doing. "
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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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" 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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Year
" 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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" 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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" 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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" We all know the dangers of sequels. Lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place too often, and I think you've got to move beyond it, go the extra mile and have the courage not to just repeat the first one. "
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Place
" Hollywood hasn't aggressively pursued me. Neither have I aggressively pursued Hollywood. "
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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 enjoy playing Mr. Darcy, but I'm not hungry to play Mark Darcy again. "
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" I've grown up surrounded by Americans and to a very large extent feel American. It sounds strange because I seem to be so quintessentially English in everyone's mind - and perhaps I am. Perhaps it's quintessentially English to have a fascination with America. "
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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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