Colin Firth

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  • “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

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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.” -Colin Firth

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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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  • “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

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  • “If you don’t mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there.” -Colin Firth

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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.” -Colin Firth

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  • One of my grandfathers, actually, having gone out there as a minister, decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age – at the age of 38 in fact – he changed course and decided to become a doctor. – Colin Firth

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