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I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack o

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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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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I think its quite extraordinary that people cast me as if Im Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends. – Colin Firth

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My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so Ive sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so theres no virtue in that its the way one is raised. – Colin Firth

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Advertisers also know that humor can help bond us to their product. – Allen Klein

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The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit. – William Temple

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A joke is a very serious thing. – Winston Churchill

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The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectators place and laugh at his own misfortune. – Bert Williams

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