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" The last thing I would attempt to do is to buy clothes for a child I didn't know well. "
Colin Firth
Child
Clothes
Know
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" My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem. "
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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 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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" I enjoy playing Mr. Darcy, but I'm not hungry to play Mark Darcy again. "
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Play
Playing
" 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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Me
Life
Respect
" If one lazily thinks of what a fashion designer might do if he's going to conquer cinema next, it would be taking the opportunity to display his fashion sensibilities. "
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Conquer
Fashion
Opportunity
" 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 Am
Way
Look
" 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. "
Colin Firth
You
Angry
Comfort
" 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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People
Group
Work
" 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
" 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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Big
Me
Actor
" 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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Reason
Said
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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. "
Colin Firth
Think
More
Country
" 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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Disaster
Film
Year
" 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. "
Colin Firth
People
Place
Think
" 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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I Am
Mind
Up
" 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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Because
Me
America
" Hollywood hasn't aggressively pursued me. Neither have I aggressively pursued Hollywood. "
Colin Firth
Pursued
Neither
Hollywood
" 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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Face
Me
Look
" 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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Up
Saying
Nice
" Most actors will tell you they have some sort of dream of doing something other than what they're doing. "
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Dream
Most
Tell
" I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky. "
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Paid
Think
Been
" 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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People
Say
Comedy
" If I were to write a book about the progress of getting to a third film, it would be a long one. "
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Write
Book
About
" 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
End
" 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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Job
Done
Design
" My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s. "
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Common
Grandmother
Minister
" 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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People
Lights
Waiting
" 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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Fine
I Am
Sound
" 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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Wife
Age
Me