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
Most actors will tell you they have some sort of dream of doing something other than what they're doing. — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
But it's interesting being directed by someone who is a very good actor. There's nothing like it. It might sound like a… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
Directors don't get to see other directors at work - they're the only one on the set. I've met directors who've asked… — 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
My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
Actors are basically drag queens. People will tell you they act because they want to heal mankind or, you know, explore the… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
However good a communicator a director is, unless they've been actors, it's just not the same as the shorthand you get with… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
One of the things that makes you want to be an actor, speaking only for myself, is that there's something infantile about… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
I think that, often, actors represent what they're not. You get people who define the aristocracy who are not aristocratic - they're… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
But this is where you get all the market research and things get in danger of becoming formulaic, and where you depend… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
I have a great deal of respect for the craft, I don't know how much respect it has for me. But it's… — 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
