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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I don't want to sound smug but I am reasonably satisfied with how it's gone. I think it's fine.
Colin Firth


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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