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Colin Firth Biography

Colin Andrew Firth, CBE (born 10 September 1960), is an English actor who has received an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, two BAFTA Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards, as well as the Volpi Cup. In 2010, Firth's portrayal of King George VI in Tom Hooper’s The King's Speech, won him the Academy Award for Best Actor.

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But it's interesting being directed by someone who is a very good actor. There's nothing like it. It might sound like a territorial thing about what I do, but I don't think you can understand what it is until you've done it. I know that to be a fact.

Interesting, Know, Nothing, Sound, Territorial, Thinking

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.

Crazy, Patient, People, Right, Upset, Work

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.

America, Felt, Mother, Partly, Schooled, Years

It's an unknown quantity. It's actually almost a cliché to say it, how hard comedy is. What's that famous quote? "Dying is easy, comedy's hard. " I think the broader it gets, if you miss by a millimetre, you've missed completely. It's a very hard thing to do.

Completely, Dying, Millimetre, Missing, Think, Thinking

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.

Desire, Dying, Jobs, People, Things, Work

I'll be your friend so long as you're not crap

Crap, Friend, Long

I've actually heard people protesting furiously about straight male costume people as well. It's not universal and there are examples that break the mould all over the place. In my experience, it's more prevalent in the UK than in America.

America, Males, Mould, People, Prevalent

I have almost no memory of them [St. Trinian's films]. I don't think I've seen them since I was quite young. I was a bit frightened of the girls. I fancied them. Even though I was young, I found them attractive and rather frightening. I've always been attracted to frightening girls! I'm married to one!

Fancied, Girl, Married, Memories, Quite, Thinking

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

Aggressively, Hollywood, Pursued

So, if you haven't picked up some tips during an apprenticeship like that, you shouldn't be directing. It doesn't mean you can do it, but it loads you up with information.

Apprenticeship, Directing, Information, Like, Mean

When I look in the mirror, I don't see my Dad, I see my grandmother. For a while it was my mother looking back at me. If only it was my Dad.

Dad, Look, Mirror, Mirrors, Mother

Doing a job, or even watching a film, can make a difference to your life, but I don't think it ever has an explosive impact where your life will never be the same again. It kind of seeps into your life, and perhaps realise you're a little more vigilant about certain things than you might have been.

Impact, Job, Jobs, Seeps, Thinking, Vigilant

Looking in the mirror, staring back at me isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.

Back, Expression, Looking, Looking In The Mirror, Mirrors, Staring

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.

Faces, Kind, Looks, Neutrality, Physically, Worse

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.

Birthday, Girlfriend, Present, Think, Thinking, Warren

I'm just the last English twit, really.

English, Lasts, Twit, Twits

The skill of a good actor is to make it always seem like you're in that fantastically spontaneous moment. Very often, a stand-up comedian has a different instinct, which is to reinvent. Once you've laid down some material, and made them laugh, you move on and find some new material.

Fantastically, Good, Laughing, Moving, Skills, Spontaneous

I can actually get involved in getting stories off the ground that no one would ask me to be in because I'm the wrong age, the wrong sex, the wrong nationality, or whatever. I've found it quite exhilarating to have that freedom to tell the stories that aren't just about middle-aged white English guys.

Ask, Ground, Guy, Sex, Stories, White

Directors don't get to see other directors at work - they're the only one on the set. I've met directors who've asked me what another filmmaker is like. So, there's probably nobody better placed to make all the comparisons and to pick up stuff than an actor.

Actors, Directors, Make, Placed, Set, Stuff

My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.

Apology, Drunken, Singing, Voice

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