Colin Firth Quotes
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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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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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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 love 'Manhattan', and I know it's not one of Woody's favorites.
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Something like 'A Single Man,' it was tiny; it was financed by one guy. We all lost money doing it.
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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 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 backpacked through France and Italy in my teens, and then I was at Cannes with the first movie I did in '84.
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I think that, often, actors represent what they're not. You get people who define the aristocracy who are not aristocratic - they're lower-middle class or working class. An awful lot of your so-called angry young actors have grown up in extreme bourgeois comfort. It really is surprisingly common.
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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.
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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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If you play a role, you want to familiarize yourself with that person's world. If I were playing an airline pilot or a doctor, I'd probably want to hang out with a doctor or an airplane pilot for a while, ask some questions. You don't get to hang out the kings. They don't help consult on movies. So your resources are, by necessity, secondary.
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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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The thing is that anybody looks good in the right clothes. It will affect your bearing. It will affect your demeanor. It informs the way you behave.
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I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird.
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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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As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but I'm not greedy for that stuff.