Colin Firth Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“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 do think I'm a character actor.”

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

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

“Some people would say comedy draws from some dark places, from your dark stuff. Life's great optimists aren't necessarily the funniest people.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”