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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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" I feel more comfortable in drama. Comedy is a high-wire act. I find it stressful. It's a precision science in a way. "

Colin Firth

Feel

Way

Science

" I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Colin Firth

Life

Respect

" 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. "

" I would definitely do TV, at the drop of a hat, if I was offered a good role. "

" 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. "

" Forget trying to be sexy. That's just gruesome. "

" If I were to write a book about the progress of getting to a third film, it would be a long one. "

" 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

Look

" 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. "

" 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. "

Colin Firth

Work

Respect

" One of the things that makes you want to be an actor, speaking only for myself, is that there's something infantile about it. You're suspending disbelief, pretending and entering into a story world. "

" 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 enjoy playing Mr. Darcy, but I'm not hungry to play Mark Darcy again. "

Colin Firth

Play

Playing

" I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky. "

" We've always been involved with America - I have a son who lives there and it's a big part of my life. "

" I can't imagine seeing Batman in black and white. It was such a colourful TV series. I know. I'm ancient. It wasn't abnormal to be without a television in those days. People who had colour were special. "

" Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering. "

" 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! "

" 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

Country

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Colin Firth

My Own

Sex

" I had heard all sorts of stories about Woody Allen's directing - directorial approach. And some of them turned out to be myth, but one of them was that he doesn't rehearse, and another was that he doesn't really direct. If he doesn't like it... he cuts it out of the movie or even replaces you. And he doesn't talk to you. "

" Hollywood hasn't aggressively pursued me. Neither have I aggressively pursued Hollywood. "

" 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. "

Colin Firth

America

Relationship

" 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. "

Colin Firth

I Am

Mind

" 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. "

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