Some people would say comedy draws from some dark places, from your dark stuff. Life's great optimists aren't necessarily the funniest people. — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
Comedy - particularly the frothy and frivolous - is notoriously neglected by festivals and awards. But it's bloody hard to get right. — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
I feel more comfortable in drama. Comedy is a high-wire act. I find it stressful. It's a precision science in a way. — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
I often think it can often be very difficult for comedians to revisit the same gag. I think Russell's a bit more… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
I do also think it eludes genre a bit - not in any groundbreaking way but you can't quite call it a… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
I feel more comfortable in drama. Comedy's is a high-wire act. I find it stressful. It's a precision science, in a way.… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
It didn't have to be a newfound respect for the craft, I knew that it's notoriously difficult and frightens a lot of… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
It's an unknown quantity. It's actually almost a cliché to say it, how hard comedy is. What's that famous quote? "Dying is… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
The skill of a good actor is to make it always seem like you're in that fantastically spontaneous moment. Very often, a… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
In filming you're waiting. You're waiting for lights. You're waiting for people set things up. And when you're not waiting, you're repeating.… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
So, you don't have laughs as a reference point any more, it becomes a bit of a science after that. And the… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s. — Colin Firth Copy Share
My looks aren't something that come dazzlingly through in everything I do. I can be made to look one way or the other fairly… — Colin Firth Copy Share
People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing.… — Colin Firth Copy Share
I do notice that when I've been away and I come back to London. People look at you. People are ready to pick arguments. — Colin Firth Copy Share
As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but I'm not greedy for that stuff. — Colin Firth Copy Share
A life of very, very serious, po-faced films would drive me nuts. I need - and I'm fortunate to have - a fairly varied… — Colin Firth Copy Share
“when im really into a movel i'm seeing the world differntly during that time- not just for the hour or so in the day… — Colin Firth Copy Share
Hollywood hasn't aggressively pursued me. Neither have I aggressively pursued Hollywood. — Colin Firth Copy Share
Looking in the mirror, staring back at me isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament. — Colin Firth Copy Share
I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of… — Colin Firth Copy Share
We all know the dangers of sequels. Lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place too often, and I think you've got to move… — Colin Firth Copy Share
I can actually get involved in getting stories off the ground that no one would ask me to be in because I'm the wrong… — Colin Firth Copy Share
There's a paraphrase about Orson Welles saying: "Great films are made by great directors and the rest are made by everyone else." I've been… — Colin Firth Copy Share
