All Colin Firth Quotes
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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Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering.
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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 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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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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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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I do notice that when I've been away and I come back to London. People look at you. People are ready to pick arguments.
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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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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 would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent.
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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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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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If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there.
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