Quotes by Colin Firth, page 2

Colin Firth - british actor

Also called: Colin Andrew Firth.

Was born on 10 sep 1960.

Origin country: United Kingdom

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

Quote by Colin Firth about mind

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.

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.

Quote by Colin Firth about time

Italy is an enormous asset in my life now. I feel it's just a privilege for me to have actually met someone who is from a country that is so fantastic. And so a lot of it is the exploration of that country, trying to learn its language, eating its...

Quote by Colin Firth about country, food, language, life

Most actors will tell you they have some sort of dream of doing something other than what they're doing.

Quote by Colin Firth about actors, dream

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

Quote by Colin Firth about common sense

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.

My type happened to fit into a trend in the early 1980s for the public school type.

Quote by Colin Firth about school, public

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.

Quote by Colin Firth about age, olderness, people

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.

Quote by Colin Firth about idea, people

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.

Quote by Colin Firth about nation, people, word, country

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

Quote by Colin Firth about clothes, commerce, children, things

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

Quote by Colin Firth about things

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

Quote by Colin Firth about life

You know, you do find though that actresses spend half their lives with people lobbying to take their clothes off and then they finally do it and they get crap for it for years. I mean people still hit Glenda Jackson with it now, still. I do think...

Quote by Colin Firth about stupidity, clothes, people