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"I think you have to be deranged to want to be famous."

"I want people to think, oh, Colin Firth, he's a good actor."

"I just wasn't sure that Darcy was really playable. He's a bit of a literary icon. There was a lot to live up to as a figure, and not enough to get your teeth into as a human being. There were too many people who saw him as some sort of ideal, some sort of absolute, and there were too many school-girls and ex-schoolgirls in love with him. There didn't seem to be anything I could do, because he doesn't do anything."

"This often happens : I read what I'm going to do in the papers, but no one's told me about it."

"Pride and Prejudice wasn't the most rigorous or challenging thing I've done."

"It's not just that the threat of egomania and narcissism are always looming [though I suspect they always are], it's just that the things I value happen to be much more to do with the things that everyone else values : friends and family and having a life. I like the real world. I like going to the supermarket. I don't want to drift so far from that that I have a life of bodyguards and a house on Mulholland Drive."