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 Personal Quotes:
on playing Darcy in Pride and Prejudice: Since he was away making another film while the miniseries was shown in England, he wasn't able to fully register the extent of the hysteria. Women have been naming their babies Darcy, buying Mr. Darcy-ish garments for their boyfriends. The BBC itself auctioned one of the film's famous frilly shirts for charity, inviting women to take "a last look at the shirt they longed to undo." "I can't understand it," says Firth. "I've never tried harder not to be sexy in my life." [US Vogue, Sept. -96]
People magazine: It's time to hit the beach and find a look that works both on the sand and in the surf. Describe your favorite swimsuit. Colin Firth: "I do not wear tiny swimming trunks. I have a sense of humor about myself, but it doesn't extend that far..." [People Mag, 11 May, 2001]
"I have a sort of neutrality about my appearance and my background which is applicable in a lot of different directions. I'm just about educated enough, I'm just about well spoken enough. I've got enough of a voice, I'm neutral enough looking, I can be good-looking enough, I can be unattractive enough. I'm in absolute pole position really, all of the advantages - there are no complaints here at all." [Attitude, April 1997]
"Acting was the first thing I ever got any approval or attention for, and I craved attention."
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Quotes from Bridget Jones's Diary:
Bridget: Wait a minute... nice boys don't kiss like that.
Mark Darcy: Oh, yes, they fucking do.
Mark Darcy: I realize that when I met you at the turkey curry buffet, I was unforgivably rude, and wearing a reindeer jumper.
Mark Darcy: I like you, very much.
Bridget: Ah, apart from the smoking and the drinking, the vulgar mother and... ah, the verbal diarrhea.
Mark Darcy: No, I like you very much. Just as you are.
Bridget: I owe you an apology about Daniel. He said you ran off with his fiancée and left him brokenhearted.
Mark Darcy: No, it was the other way around. My wife. My heart.
Bridget: Did I really run round your lawn naked?
Mark Darcy: Oh, yes. You were four and I was eight.
Bridget: Well, that's a pretty big age difference. It's quite pervy really.
Mark Darcy: Yes, I like to think so.
Quotes from Pride and Prejudice:
Miss Bingley: Miss Eliza Bennet, let me persuade you to follow my example and take a turn about the room. It's so refreshing. - Will you not join us, Mr Darcy?
Mr. Darcy: That would defeat the object.
Miss Bingley: What do you mean, sir? What on earth can he mean?
Elizabeth Bennet: I think we would do better not to inquire.
Miss Bingley: Nay, we insist on knowing your meaning, sir.
Mr. Darcy: Well, that your figures appear to best advantage when walking and that I might best admire them from my present position.
Miss Bingley: Shocking, abominable reply! How shall we punish him, Miss Eliza?
Elizabeth Bennet: Nothing so easy. Tease him, laugh at him.
Miss Bingley: Laugh at Mr. Darcy? Impossible, he is a man without fault.
Mr. Darcy: She is tolerable, I suppose, but not handsome enough to tempt me.
Mr. Darcy: In vain have I struggled, it will not do. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
Mr. Darcy: I may say the disclosure had quite the opposite effect to the one she intended. It taught me to hope as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before.
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He contributed a short story, "The Department of Nothing", to the collection "Speaking With the Angel", edited by Nick Hornby.
According to Colin Firth, when he was first offered the role of Darcy, his brother incredulously remarked, "Darcy? But isn't he supposed to be sexy?"
Desperately hopes the new PRIDE AND PREJUDICE movie will help him shed his image as Jane Austen heartthrob Mr Darcy.
Had a relationship with Jennifer Ehle, whom he met while filming "Pride and Prejudice".
Said he'd seriously consider taking over the James Bond franchise from Pierce Brosnan, despite not being offered the part.
Has one child with actress Meg Tilly, Will (born 1990) and 2 sons named Luca (born March 29, 2001, in Rome) and Mateo on 25th August 2003.
Although he usually gets along quite well with other actors, he had a well-publicized verbal feud with Rupert Everett, although the source of this tension is not known.
On the DVD audio commentary for "Love Actually," Hugh Grant continuously mocks the looks, age, acting abilities, and alleged vanity of Firth (his sometimes on-screen rival), eventually encouraging his fellow-commentators writer/director Richard Curtis, and co-stars Bill Nighy and Thomas Sangster to join in on the mocking. Firth appears to have taken these comments in good nature and said that he and Grant seem to have a "Bette Davis-Joan Crawford" kind of relationship.
Was nominated for Best Kiss at MTV Movie Awards for BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY (2002) - shared with Renée Zellweger.
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