I don't know if this qualifies as gentle reassurance, but right now this is all that stands between me and a Harley-Davidson. — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
I'm fully aware that if I were to change professions tomorrow, become an astronaut and be the first man to land on… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
The great thing about dealing with people about whom we have historical resources, is that if the writing needs work, there's everywhere… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
I don't know if there's a problem with original ideas... I think a healthy film industry should have a good supply of… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
If you're playing someone who's got marital problems, you have to play someone who's trying not to have marital problems. So, you've… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
When I look in the mirror, I don't see my Dad, I see my grandmother. For a while it was my mother… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
So, if you haven't picked up some tips during an apprenticeship like that, you shouldn't be directing. It doesn't mean you can… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
If I were to write a book about the progress of getting to a third film, it would be a long one. — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
There's no point in it unless it's a story that you really want to tell. It's a nebulous job. Unless you're doing… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
I do think a good story in a novel is fair game and there's nothing wrong with adapting that. It sometimes gets… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
If you're playing someone who's impeded by fear, or shyness, or has whatever dysfunction your character might have, you have to achieve… — 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
So, I think there's a danger that good stuff can fall by the wayside if it doesn't conform to formula. But I… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
I find that at almost every press junket I get that comment, "this character's different from what you generally play..." And that's… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
If I'd loved my chemistry teacher and my maths teacher, goodness knows what direction my life might have gone in. I remember… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
'La Dolce Vita' made we want to go to Rome and, if not jump into the Trevi Fountain, at least watch someone… — 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
