Colin Firth quotes

Because I am an Englishman I spent most of my life in a state of embarrassment.
-- Colin Firth

#Embarrassment #States #Englishmen

Nothing brings you closer together than blind terror.
-- Colin Firth

#Together #Blind #Terror

I work with the options I have in front of me and my reasons for choosing a job can vary enormously depending on the circumstances. Sometimes I take a job because it's a group of people I'm dying to work with, and sometimes it can be a desire to shake things up a bit and not to take myself too seriously.
-- Colin Firth

#Jobs #People #Dying

Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real.
-- Colin Firth

#Real #Errors #People

It's a very dangerous state. You are inclined to recklessness and kind of tune out the rest of your life and everything that's been important to you. It's actually not all that pleasurable. I don't know who the hell wants to get in a situation where you can't bear an hour without somebody's company.
-- Colin Firth

#Best Love #Important #Tunes

I'm fully aware that if I were to change professions tomorrow, become an astronaut and be the first man to land on Mars, the headlines in the newspapers would read: `Mr. Darcy Lands on Mars.
-- Colin Firth

#Men #Land #Mars

My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.
-- Colin Firth

#Apology #Voice #Singing

When I'm really into a novel, I'm seeing the world differently during that time— not just for the hour or so in the day when I get to read. I'm actually walking around in a haze, spellbound by the book and looking at everything through a different prism.
-- Colin Firth

#Book #Different #World

The failure so far of the governments of so many of the worlds most powerful countries in the face of such egregious unfairness ... to make the slightest progress on the issue of fair trade is hard to explain.
-- Colin Firth

#Country #Powerful #Government

You have to be ill if you want to get better.
-- Colin Firth

#Get Better #Want #Ill

I'll be your friend so long as you're not crap
-- Colin Firth

#Long #Crap

Hollywood hasn't aggressively pursued me. Neither have I aggressively pursued Hollywood.
-- Colin Firth

#Hollywood

Forget trying to be sexy. That's just gruesome.
-- Colin Firth

#Sexy #Trying #Forget

I have a kind of neutrality, physically, which has helped me. I have a face that can be made to look a lot better - or a lot worse.
-- Colin Firth

#Neutrality #Looks #Faces

To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all.
-- Colin Firth

#Want #Rational #Bothered

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

#Reassurance #Harley #Gentle

Looking in the mirror, staring back at me isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.
-- Colin Firth

#Mirrors #Expression #Looking In The Mirror

Whenever you take on playing a villain, he has to cease to be a villain to you. If you judge this man by his time, he's doing very little wrong.
-- Colin Firth

#Men #Judging #Littles

It used to be that I was always paranoid or a loser or something so there's usually something that you seem to associate yourself with at one time or another.
-- Colin Firth

#Loser #Used #Paranoid

I do think I'm a character actor.
-- Colin Firth

#Character #Thinking #Actors

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

#Culture #Popular Culture #Stills

I love you even when you're sick and look disgusting.
-- Colin Firth

#Love You #Cheesy Love #Sick

It does help to actually realize that however stunning the person who is, you know, fluttering eyelashes at you, she doesn't do anything to match up to your wife.
-- Colin Firth

#Eyelashes #Wife #Doe

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 easily... I am still not recognised on the street that much.
-- Colin Firth

#Looks #Way #Made

I thought I was managing my expectations, but on hearing the news I discovered new and unfamiliar vocal tones. Perhaps I should do another musical.
-- Colin Firth

#Expectations #Musical #News

On his fight scene with Hugh Grant in Bridget Jones: It was a delicious experience.
-- Colin Firth

#Fighting #Scene #Bridget Jones

My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?
-- Colin Firth

#Party #Actors #Pieces

My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.
-- Colin Firth

#Teaching #Grandparent #People

True nobility is being superior to your former self.
-- Colin Firth

#Self #Former #Nobility

I'm not patient, and some things drive me crazy. In my work, I get incredibly upset when people don't get it right or don't respect others' needs.
-- Colin Firth

#Crazy #People #Upset

Most actors will tell you they have some sort of dream of doing something other than what they're doing.
-- Colin Firth

#Dream #Actors

My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s.
-- Colin Firth

#Grandmother #Common #Ministers

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

#Children #Clothes #Lasts

The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I'm not denying they exist. But it's a far more philistine country than people think.
-- Colin Firth

#Country #Thinking #People

I'd love to try my hand at something else.
-- Colin Firth

#Hands #Trying

The Hollywood Foreign Press have just given me a time out from my 20-year midlife crisis. My heartfelt thanks to them.
-- Colin Firth

#Years #Heartfelt #Hollywood

I think that London is very much like that. I find there's humour in the air and people are interesting. And I think that it's a place which is constantly surprising. The worst thing about it? I think it can be smug and aggressive.
-- Colin Firth

#Thinking #Air #People

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

#Son #America #Bigs

I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent.
-- Colin Firth

#People #Good Work #Indifferent

As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but I'm not greedy for that stuff.
-- Colin Firth

#Want #Stuff #Next

I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.
-- Colin Firth

#Italian #East #Serious

I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends.
-- Colin Firth

#Birthday #Girlfriend #Thinking

Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering.
-- Colin Firth

#Bridget Jones #Flattering

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

#People #Looks #London

I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year.
-- Colin Firth

#Mother #Years #America

I was gearing up for it. I took some singing lessons. And I opened my mouth, and Atom promptly said, 'That's not going to happen. We love your voice, but maybe we could use some of your English wit.' He had doubts about it from way back. For starters, we weren't going to be doing the Italian-American crooning thing.
-- Colin Firth

#Love You #Italian #Voice

One of my grandfathers, actually, having gone out there as a minister, decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age - at the age of 38 in fact - he changed course and decided to become a doctor.
-- Colin Firth

#Doctors #People #Grandfather

When I visited coffee farms in Ethiopia, the farmers could not believe we spend a week's wages in their country on a cup of coffee in ours, because they see so little of the profits. Oxfam's fair trade campaign helps right this wrong.
-- Colin Firth

#Country #Coffee #Believe

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. They were all doing something rather different.
-- Colin Firth

#Ideas #People #Going Out

Actors are basically drag queens. People will tell you they act because they want to heal mankind or, you know, explore the nature of the human psyche. Yes, maybe. But basically we just want to put on a frock and dance.
-- Colin Firth

#Queens #People #Actors

I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky.
-- Colin Firth

#Struggle #Thinking #Lucky

I never saw myself as Mr. Ugly, but I'm not that handsome. I can sort of be made to look quite a lot better or quite a lot worse.
-- Colin Firth

#Beauty #Looks #Ugly

I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree.
-- Colin Firth

#Swimming #Cutting #Thinking

I absolutely don't care about my looks and I'm so used to them that I wouldn't change a thing. I would end up missing my defects.
-- Colin Firth

#Missing #Looks #Care