Colin Firth Quotes

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

Problem, Between, Voice

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

Sexy, Forget, Trying

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

Work, Good, Thought

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

Humor, Thought, Serious

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

Person, Next, Stuff

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

Change, Care, End

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

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

Good, Real, Wrong

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.
Colin Firth

Time, Yourself, Loser

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

Wherever, Bothered, Rational

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

Actually, Literary, Flattering

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

Hollywood, Neither, Pursued

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

Away, Ready, London

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

Character, Actor

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

Gone, Fine, Sound

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

Made, Face, Worse

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

Mother, Long, America

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

Struggle, Lucky, Paid

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

Living, Reason, Intentions

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

Find, Place, Worst

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

Find, Become, Point

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

Work, Job, Sometimes

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

Love, Try, Else

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.
Colin Firth

Work, Respect, Crazy

If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there.
Colin Firth

Freedom, Mind, Haunting

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Actor

Born: September 10, 1960

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