Colin Firth quotes - page 2

Forget trying to be sexy. That's just gruesome. (Colin Firth)
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. View quote
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To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all. View quote
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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. View quote
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I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky. View quote
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Most actors will tell you they have some sort of dream of doing something other than what they're doing. View quote
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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. View quote
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I do think I'm a character actor. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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If I were to write a book about the progress of getting to a third film, it would be a long one. (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 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. View quote
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If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there. View quote
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I don't want to sound smug but I am reasonably satisfied with how it's gone. I think it's fine. View quote
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In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class Englishman adrift in smalltown America and that has definitely been me. View quote
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They're not bombarding me with offers, although the ones that have come along have been too preposterous to contemplate, so it's not as if I spend every day resisting $20 million pay cheques. View quote
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I had heard all sorts of stories about Woody Allen's directing - directorial approach. And some of them turned out to be myth, but one of them was that he doesn't rehearse, and another was that he doesn't really direct. If he doesn't like it... he cuts it out of the movie or even replaces you. And he doesn't talk to you. View quote
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