Quote by Colin Firth
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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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

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relationship
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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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Medical
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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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Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

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I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres. – Carrie Brownstein

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Im not a traditional politician, and I have a sense of humor. Ill try to soften it and become boring, maybe even very boring, but Im not sure if Ill be able to. – Silvio Berlusconi

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I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way. – John Zorn

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