Colin Firth Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

I like playing strange characters. Some people might say it has something to do with a hidden part of myself, but I think it's a lot simpler than that: normal people are just not very interesting.

I think everyone is throwing happy stuff at you, and that's when you come over all humbug. It's happy stuff in your face, happy stuff is being sold to you.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Maybe it's shallow of me to have a wife that's so beautiful, but it makes things easier. To me she's the most beautiful woman in the world.

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

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.

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

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

I don't know if there's a problem with original ideas... I think a healthy film industry should have a good supply of good, original writing.

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.

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.

Forget trying to be sexy. That's just gruesome.

You have to be ill if you want to get better.

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

Hollywood hasn't aggressively pursued me. Neither have I aggressively pursued Hollywood.

However good a communicator a director is, unless they've been actors, it's just not the same as the shorthand you get with someone who's been an actor.

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.

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.

I'm just the last English twit, really.

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

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

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

If you're playing someone who's got marital problems, you have to play someone who's trying not to have marital problems. So, you've got to get into the problem first.

No matter how much technique you draw on or how much training you have, acting is a mystery.

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

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.

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

And that is a hard route for a woman to come through. There's still a lot of roles that have to be conformed to. It's quite an old fashioned environment in a lot of ways.

Firth - all dodgy 'tache and frantic eyebrows - has got the sexual allure of a man who runs a swingers' club in Surbiton.

Nothing brings you closer together than blind terror.

I often think it can often be very difficult for comedians to revisit the same gag. I think Russell's a bit more than a comedian.

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

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.

I do think I'm a character actor.

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

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.

Sometimes to think about why some institutions are stable, it's interesting to go one generation back and look at the author of that stability.

Comedy - particularly the frothy and frivolous - is notoriously neglected by festivals and awards. But it's bloody hard to get right.

I don't know if this qualifies as gentle reassurance, but right now this is all that stands between me and a Harley-Davidson.

When I look in the mirror, I don't see my Dad, I see my grandmother. For a while it was my mother looking back at me. If only it was my Dad.

'La Dolce Vita' made we want to go to Rome and, if not jump into the Trevi Fountain, at least watch someone else do it. Maybe that's why I married an Italian...!