Colin Firth Quotes
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.
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I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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If you want to lead, you better love people. Even if you don't like them, you have to love them enough to tell them the truth.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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So, I think I'd be grateful for the next job. I always am. And I always consider everything I do to be the last thing I do.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.
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I remember the days of sitting at book signings, playing with my pen when no one would come, and still I even then thought I was living the dream, because I had a book out.
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Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music.
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I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.
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Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.
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I am one of those people that's never been really cynical about life, you know.
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You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.
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Milosevic will never stop, because he is fighting for personal power in Serbia. The only way to stop him is cutting the functioning of his war machine. He is spending $1.7 million a day on his war machine in Kosovo.
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Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.
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My dad was disappointed in me because I was obese, and he was a sports guy. As a result, I spent a lot of time in that basement. I could go down there and escape and be whatever I wanted to be. I had a huge fantasy life. It always involved vengeance.
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I never went on an audition - when they were really looking at everybody.
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I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.
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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.
