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.

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

By: Colin Firth

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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... view

By: Colin Firth

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

By: Colin Firth

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I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast... view

By: Colin Firth

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Forget trying to be sexy. That's just gruesome... view

By: Colin Firth

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

By: Colin Firth

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

By: Colin Firth

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I absolutely don't care about my looks and I'm so used to them that I wouldn't change a thing. I would end up missing my defects... view

By: Colin Firth

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I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird... view

By: Colin Firth

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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... view

By: Colin Firth

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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... view

By: Colin Firth

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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... view

By: Colin Firth

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