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My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.
- Colin Firth
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#Medical
#Parents
#People
#Way
I'm not patient, and some things drive me crazy. In my work, I get incredibly upset when people don't get it right or don't respect others' needs.
- Colin Firth
#Crazy
#Drive
#Me
#Respect
#Work
I do think I'm a character actor.
- Colin Firth
#Actor
#Character Actor
#Character
#Think
I've grown up surrounded by Americans and to a very large extent feel American. It sounds strange because I seem to be so quintessentially English in everyone's mind - and perhaps I am. Perhaps it's quintessentially English to have a fascination with America.
- Colin Firth
#America
#American
#Feel
#I Am
#Mind
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.
- Colin Firth
#Disaster
#Film
#Next
#Story
#True
If I were to write a book about the progress of getting to a third film, it would be a long one.
- Colin Firth
#About
#Book
#Film
#Long
#Progress
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.
- Colin Firth
#Age
#Extraordinary
#Me
#People
#Wife
I was in a lake in 'Love Actually', and I was attacked by some hideous aquatic beast and was rushed to the hospital by a man named Rafael! Something stung my elbow, and it blew up to the size of a tennis ball.
- Colin Firth
#Ball
#Beast
#Hospital
#Love
#Man
I work with the options I have in front of me and my reasons for choosing a job can vary enormously depending on the circumstances. Sometimes I take a job because it's a group of people I'm dying to work with, and sometimes it can be a desire to shake things up a bit and not to take myself too seriously.
- Colin Firth
#Desire
#Me
#Myself
#People
#Work
I don't want to sound smug but I am reasonably satisfied with how it's gone. I think it's fine.
- Colin Firth
#Gone
#I Am
#Satisfied
#Sound
#Want
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.
- Colin Firth
#Bible
#Doing
#People
#Rather
#Something
I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent.
- Colin Firth
#Good Work
#Good
#Me
#People
#Work
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.
- Colin Firth
#Care
#Change
#don't Care
#End
#Missing
The only reason I'm in 'Kingsman' is because Matthew enjoys playing with the unexpected. I'm not playing Harry Hart because I'm the butchest actor in Britain. I'm playing it because he said I'm the last person anyone would expect to see in that role!
- Colin Firth
#Actor
#Person
#Reason
#See
#Unexpected
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.
- Colin Firth
#Always
#Humor
#Irish
#Irony
#Serious
If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there.
- Colin Firth
#Freedom
#I Think
#Mind
#More
#Think
We all know the dangers of sequels. Lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place too often, and I think you've got to move beyond it, go the extra mile and have the courage not to just repeat the first one.
- Colin Firth
#Beyond
#Courage
#Extra Mile
#Go
#Know
#Lightning
#Place
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.
- Colin Firth
#Better
#Face
#Look
#Me
#Neutrality
Something like 'A Single Man,' it was tiny; it was financed by one guy. We all lost money doing it.
- Colin Firth
#Doing
#Lost
#Man
#Money
#Single Man
Forget trying to be sexy. That's just gruesome.
- Colin Firth
#Forget
#Gruesome
#Just
#Sexy
#Trying
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