Colin Firth Quotes

• 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 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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  Tags in People, Interesting, Aggressive

• 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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  Tags in Find, Popular, Actually

• 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 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 haven’t had to struggle very much. I haven’t paid my dues. I think I have been lucky.

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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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• 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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• 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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  Tags in Neutrality, Better

• I do think I’m a character actor.

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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 absolutely don’t care about my looks and I’m so used to them that I wouldn’t change a thing. I would end up missing my defects.

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  Tags in Change, Care, Missing

• 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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  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Thought, Exceptions

• Hollywood hasn’t aggressively pursued me. Neither have I aggressively pursued Hollywood.

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  Tags in Hollywood, Pursued, Aggressive

• Forget trying to be s*xy. That’s just gruesome.

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  Tags in Forget, Trying

• Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering.

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  Tags in Flattering, Literary

• As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but I’m not greedy for that stuff.

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  Tags in Person, Approved

• 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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  Tags in Good, Real, Possible

Colin Firth (38)

Birth:	10th September, 1960
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor, Producer, Screenwriter

About

Colin Andrew Firth was born in Grayshott, Hampshire, England. He is an English actor, producer and screenwriter. He has received an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, two BAFTAs and three Screen Actors Guild Awards, as well as the Volpi Cup. His most notable and acclaimed role to date has been his 2010 portrayal of King George VI in The King's Speech, a performance that earned him the Oscar and multiple worldwide best actor awards. In 2011, Firth received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was also selected as one of the Time 100.

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