Colin Firth quotes

Colin Firth is a British actor acclaimed for his roles in film, television, and theatre. His performances in works such as "The King’s Speech" and "Pride and Prejudice" have earned him numerous awards and international recognition. He is also known for his advocacy on social and environmental issues. Here are 42 of his quotes:

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.

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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.

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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.

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

Colin Firth

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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?

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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