Colin Firth

I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be…

— Colin Firth

'La Dolce Vita' made we want to go to Rome and, if not jump into the Trevi Fountain, at least watch someone…

— Colin Firth

I was gearing up for it. I took some singing lessons. And I opened my mouth, and Atom promptly said, 'That's not…

— Colin Firth

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

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

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

I have a kind of neutrality, physically, which has helped me. I have a face that can be made to look a…

— Colin Firth

I never saw myself as Mr. Ugly, but I'm not that handsome. I can sort of be made to look quite a…

— Colin Firth

Something like Shakespeare in Love, which became such an established hit that it now seems like a foregone conclusion... but it really…

— Colin Firth

I do also think it eludes genre a bit - not in any groundbreaking way but you can't quite call it a…

— Colin Firth

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

Actors are basically drag queens. People will tell you they act because they want to heal mankind or, you know, explore the…

— Colin Firth

I can't bring you absolute truth in the detailed factual sense. All I can do is bring you an interpretation as I…

— Colin Firth

I've actually heard people protesting furiously about straight male costume people as well. It's not universal and there are examples that break…

— Colin Firth

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

We've always been involved with America - I have a son who lives there and it's a big part of my life.

— Colin Firth

The last thing I would attempt to do is to buy clothes for a child I didn't know well.

— Colin Firth

It does help to actually realize that however stunning the person who is, you know, fluttering eyelashes at you, she doesn't do…

— Colin Firth

They're not bombarding me with offers, although the ones that have come along have been too preposterous to contemplate, so it's not…

— Colin Firth

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

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