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Colin Firth
September 10, 1960 -
Nationality: British
Category: Actor
Subcategory: British Actor

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

   

I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

We've always been involved with America - I have a son who lives there and it's a big part of my life.

   

My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s.

   

Most actors will tell you they have some sort of dream of doing something other than what they're doing.

   

I don't want to sound smug but I am reasonably satisfied with how it's gone. I think it's fine.

   

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.

   

If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there.

   

Hollywood hasn't aggressively pursued me. Neither have I aggressively pursued Hollywood.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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

   

The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I'm not denying they exist. But it's a far more philistine country than people think.

   

To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all.

   

I do think I'm a character actor.

   

The last thing I would attempt to do is to buy clothes for a child I didn't know well.

   

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