I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent.CQuote by Colin Firth about people
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.CQuote by Colin Firth about people
As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but I'm not greedy for that stuff.CQuote by Colin Firth about people
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.CQuote by Colin Firth about people
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.CQuote by Colin Firth about people
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.CQuote by Colin Firth about 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.CQuote by Colin Firth about 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.CQuote by Colin Firth about 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.CQuote by Colin Firth about people
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...CQuote by Colin Firth about people