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On his fight scene with Hugh G...

On his fight scene with Hugh Grant in Bridget Jones: It was a delicious experience.

Colin Firth 143 quotes

The failure so far of the gove...

The failure so far of the governments of so many of the worlds most powerful countries in the face of such egregious unfairness ... to make the slightest progress on the issue of fair trade is hard to explain.

Colin Firth 143 quotes

When I visited coffee farms in...

When I visited coffee farms in Ethiopia, the farmers could not believe we spend a week's wages in their country on a cup of coffee in ours, because they see so little of the profits. Oxfam's fair trade campaign helps right this wrong.

Colin Firth 143 quotes

When I'm really into a novel, ...

When I'm really into a novel, I'm seeing the world differently during that timeЂ' not just for the hour or so in the day when I get to read. I'm actually walking around in a haze, spellbound by the book and looking at everything through a different prism.

Colin Firth 143 quotes

It does help to actually reali...

It does help to actually realize that however stunning the person who is, you know, fluttering eyelashes at you, she doesn't do anything to match up to your wife.

Colin Firth 143 quotes

Whenever you take on playing a...

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 143 quotes

Looking in the mirror, staring...

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

Colin Firth 143 quotes

You have to be ill if you want...

You have to be ill if you want to get better.

Colin Firth 143 quotes

I'll be your friend so long as...

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

Colin Firth 143 quotes

Hollywood hasn't aggressively ...

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

Colin Firth 143 quotes

Bridget Jones is part of liter...

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

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I do notice that when I've bee...

I do notice that when I've been away and I come back to London. People look at you. People are ready to pick arguments.

Colin Firth 143 quotes

I have a very long relationshi...

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 143 quotes

People have the idea of missio...

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 143 quotes

No matter how much technique y...

No matter how much technique you draw on or how much training you have, acting is a mystery.

Colin Firth 143 quotes

The Hollywood Foreign Press ha...

The Hollywood Foreign Press have just given me a time out from my 20-year midlife crisis. My heartfelt thanks to them.

Colin Firth 143 quotes

I like playing strange charact...

I like playing strange characters. Some people might say it has something to do with a hidden part of myself, but I think it's a lot simpler than that: normal people are just not very interesting.

Colin Firth 143 quotes

If you're playing someone who'...

If you're playing someone who's got marital problems, you have to play someone who's trying not to have marital problems. So, you've got to get into the problem first.

Colin Firth 143 quotes

If you're playing someone who'...

If you're playing someone who's impeded by fear, or shyness, or has whatever dysfunction your character might have, you have to achieve the dysfunction first, imaginatively, in order to play someone who is trying to negotiate their way out of it.

Colin Firth 143 quotes

I can't bring you absolute tru...

I can't bring you absolute truth in the detailed factual sense. All I can do is bring you an interpretation as I understand it. That's all you can ever get from an actor.

Colin Firth 143 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....