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 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
The way I've described Helen's sort of rigorous honesty I just think he also has tremendously. It's very strange... he just has… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
Sometimes to think about why some institutions are stable, it's interesting to go one generation back and look at the author of… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
I like playing strange characters. Some people might say it has something to do with a hidden part of myself, but I… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
I think it helps to get a film made because people who put money in are nervous. They like to have something… — 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
Just driving I just was in a car on flat ground and I couldn't make it go. Having ticked driving and taken… — 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
It's entirely to do with personality, I think. There are good directors who talk a lot, bad directors who talk a lot,… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
Doing a job, or even watching a film, can make a difference to your life, but I don't think it ever has… — 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
There's a paraphrase about Orson Welles saying: "Great films are made by great directors and the rest are made by everyone else."… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
Some people come up to be directors by coming through the camera department and there's not a lot of women in the… — 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
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
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
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
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
I think everyone is throwing happy stuff at you, and that's when you come over all humbug. It's happy stuff in your… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
Less racist now but it has been. I don't think it's been completely stamped out. There's a class element to it. And… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
I have almost no memory of them [St. Trinian's films]. I don't think I've seen them since I was quite young. I… — 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
I don't think it's aiming at gags, I think the humour is woven into it. It's part of how the characters operate… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
I think the dictator director is based upon stories from the past. I don't think anyone would put up with it now.… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s. — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but I'm not greedy for that stuff. — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Hollywood hasn't aggressively pursued me. Neither have I aggressively pursued Hollywood. — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
Looking in the mirror, staring back at me isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament. — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
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 Image
![“I have almost no memory of them [St. Trinian's films]. I don't think I've seen them since I was quite young. I was a bit frightened of the girls. I fancied them. Even though I was young, I found them attractive and rather frightening. I've always been attracted to frightening girls! I'm married to…” quote by Colin Firth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f84/colin-firth-2891_attractive_i-have-almost-no-memory-of-them-st-trini_2248369.jpg)
