Quotes by Colin Firth

Colin Firth

‘La Dolce Vita’ made we want to go to Rome and, if not jump into the Trevi Fountain, at least watch someone else do it. Maybe that’s why I married an Italian…!

Italian

Rome

Watches

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.

Errors

People

Real

And that is a hard route for a woman to come through. There’s still a lot of roles that have to be conformed to. It’s quite an old fashioned environment in a lot of ways.

Environment

Roles

Way

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

Stuff

Want

Because I am an Englishman I spent most of my life in a state of embarrassment.

Awkward

Feelings

Life

But it’s interesting being directed by someone who is a very good actor. There’s nothing like it. It might sound like a territorial thing about what I do, but I don’t think you can understand what it is until you’ve done it. I know that to be a fact.

Interesting

Sound

Thinking

But this is where you get all the market research and things get in danger of becoming formulaic, and where you depend on brands and getting recognised actors. It’s the thing that precludes risk very often, otherwise everyone would be avant-garde all over the place.

Avant Garde

Risk

Would Be

Certainly, from where I stand, I’m not a specialist in wildly different walks and voices. But I find as much variation and nuance as what satisfies me in what I do. So, I don’t find this particularly different. He has his own peculiarities. You’re probably talking about a cluster of Englishmen in suits but I’ve done quite a big cluster of guys not in suits as well, which I’ve occupied myself with. So, I don’t find that this is the one that stands out.

Guy

Talking

Voice

Directors don’t get to see other directors at work – they’re the only one on the set. I’ve met directors who’ve asked me what another filmmaker is like. So, there’s probably nobody better placed to make all the comparisons and to pick up stuff than an actor.

Actors

Directors

Stuff

Forget trying to be sexy. That’s just gruesome.

Forget

Sexy

Trying

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Absolute Truth

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Actors

America

Attention

Avant Garde

Awkward

Beauty

Believe

Bigs

Birthday

Blind

Book

Boys

Bridget Jones

Cameras

Care

Character

Cheesy Love

Children

Clothes

Coffee

Comedy

Country

Crap

Cutting

Degrees

Different

Directors

Doctors

Doe

Drama

Dying

Dysfunction

East

Elements

Environment

Errors

Expression

Eyelashes

Feelings

Fighting

Film

Firsts

Forget

Found

Fun

Games

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Quotes by Colin Firth

Colin Firth

‘La Dolce Vita’ made we want to go to Rome and, if not jump into the Trevi Fountain, at least watch someone else do it. Maybe that’s why I married an Italian…!

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.

And that is a hard route for a woman to come through. There’s still a lot of roles that have to be conformed to. It’s quite an old fashioned environment in a lot of ways.

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

Because I am an Englishman I spent most of my life in a state of embarrassment.

But it’s interesting being directed by someone who is a very good actor. There’s nothing like it. It might sound like a territorial thing about what I do, but I don’t think you can understand what it is until you’ve done it. I know that to be a fact.

But this is where you get all the market research and things get in danger of becoming formulaic, and where you depend on brands and getting recognised actors. It’s the thing that precludes risk very often, otherwise everyone would be avant-garde all over the place.

Directors don’t get to see other directors at work – they’re the only one on the set. I’ve met directors who’ve asked me what another filmmaker is like. So, there’s probably nobody better placed to make all the comparisons and to pick up stuff than an actor.

Forget trying to be sexy. That’s just gruesome.

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