Quotes by Colin Firth about People

10 quotes by Colin Firth about people

Colin Firth British actor

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.

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As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but...

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

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I do notice that when I've been away and I come back to...

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.

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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.

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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.

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I would rather five people knew my work and thought it...

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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...

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