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Whenever you take on playing a villain, he has to cease to be a villain to you. If you judge this man by his time, he's doing very little wrong.
Colin Firth
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Colin Firth
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 10
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Colin Andrew Firth
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It's a very dangerous state. You are inclined to recklessness and kind of tune out the rest of your life and everything that's been important to you. It's actually not all that pleasurable. I don't know who the hell wants to get in a situation where you can't bear an hour without somebody's company.
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No matter how much technique you draw on or how much training you have, acting is a mystery.
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The great thing about dealing with people about whom we have historical resources, is that if the writing needs work, there's everywhere to go to enrich it.
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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.
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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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On his fight scene with Hugh Grant in Bridget Jones: It was a delicious experience.
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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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