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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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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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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Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it.
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It's moving in the right direction for Arab actors but very slowly.
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The best memories on tour are always of kids who tell me they are going to run back to their classrooms and start writing!
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If you look at the movies that come out, most of them are bad, so it's not as if achieving some level of success means you get offered better roles, because frankly they don't seem to exist.
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It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.
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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.
