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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. "
Colin Firth
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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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" If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there. "
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" I don't want to sound smug but I am reasonably satisfied with how it's gone. I think it's fine. "
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" 'A great British icon' is not the phrase I'd use about anybody, but there are people you admire that happen to be British. I think it's a phrase that gets attached to anyone who's been around long enough to become overfamiliar. "
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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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" I love 'Manhattan', and I know it's not one of Woody's favorites. "
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" I'd love to try my hand at something else. "
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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 enjoy playing Mr. Darcy, but I'm not hungry to play Mark Darcy again. "
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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. "
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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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" The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I'm not denying they exist. But it's a far more philistine country than people think. "
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" A life of very, very serious, po-faced films would drive me nuts. I need - and I'm fortunate to have - a fairly varied menu in that respect. I mean, I was shooting 'Mamma Mia!' at the same time as I was doing Michael Winterbottom's 'Genova'. That was a very, very bizarre summer. "
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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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" Growing up, my mates and I would have rather been Sid Vicious or members of the Royal Family. "
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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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" 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 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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" Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" I would definitely do TV, at the drop of a hat, if I was offered a good role. "
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" 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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" If you play a role, you want to familiarize yourself with that person's world. If I were playing an airline pilot or a doctor, I'd probably want to hang out with a doctor or an airplane pilot for a while, ask some questions. You don't get to hang out the kings. They don't help consult on movies. So your resources are, by necessity, secondary. "
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