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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.
Colin Firth

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

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

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