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
Im not patient, and some things drive me crazy. In my work, I get incredibly upset when people dont get it right or dont respect others needs. – Colin Firth
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
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
On bad days, I think Id like to be a plastic surgeon who goes to Third World countries and operates on children in villages with airlifts, and then I think, Yeah, right, Im going to go back to undergraduate school and take all the biology I missed and then go to medical school. No. No. – Tama Janowitz
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart. – Elizabeth Bowen