Quote: And 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]
Quote: Colin is the sort of name you give your goldfish for a joke. [Colin Firth]
Quote: 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]
Quote: 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]
Quote: All we can do is hope and pray - on suggestions Hugh Grant will retire soon. [Colin Firth]
Quote: It's an Atom Egoyan movie, ... We know he's not the world's great pornographer. It's hard to quantify what kind of damage (the rating) will have done. [Colin Firth]
Quote: Some people do it with irony and humor. Some people do it earnestly. Some people are ashamed of having to ask the question. And every so often there will be a journalist from Swaziland who doesn't know anything about it -- wonderful. [Colin Firth]
Quote: The sheer level of fascination on the subject is really a symptom of how this issue affects people, particularly women who are in utter disbelief that anyone would consciously go the other way -- to actually try to gain weight [Colin Firth]
Quote: On his fight scene with Hugh Grant in Bridget Jones: It was a delicious experience. [Colin Firth]
Quote: Something about being given that microphone and if you're dressed right and the spotlights are on you, how can you not play that stuff? [Colin Firth]
Quote: It made me uncomfortable. [Colin Firth]
Quote: Where the Truth Lies. [Colin Firth]
Quote: Is that it is like Hamlet. If you thought about who had played it before, you'd never play Hamlet again. [Colin Firth]
Quote: There was quite a lot of your rear end that didn't make it either. [Colin Firth]
Quote: 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]
Quote: 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]
Quote: As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but I'm not greedy for that stuff. [Colin Firth]
Quote: Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering. [Colin Firth]
Quote: Forget trying to be sexy. That's just gruesome. [Colin Firth]
Quote: Hollywood hasn't aggressively pursued me. Neither have I aggressively pursued Hollywood. [Colin Firth]
Quote: 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]
Quote: 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]
Quote: 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]
Quote: I do think I'm a character actor. [Colin Firth]
Quote: I don't want to sound smug but I am reasonably satisfied with how it's gone. I think it's fine. [Colin Firth]