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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. "
Colin Firth
Son
Always
America
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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. "
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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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" 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 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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" 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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" 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 enjoy playing Mr. Darcy, but I'm not hungry to play Mark Darcy again. "
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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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" Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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 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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" 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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" As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but I'm not greedy for that stuff. "
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" I'd love to try my hand at something else. "
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" 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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" 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 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 love 'Manhattan', and I know it's not one of Woody's favorites. "
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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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" Hollywood hasn't aggressively pursued me. Neither have I aggressively pursued Hollywood. "
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" 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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" 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 parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised. "
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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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" Obviously, if people love a movie, and it has the possibility of continuation, then there is going to be a question of whether it's worth doing another one. There's also cynicism and skepticism about sequels. "
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