Colin Firth Quotes

• You have to be ill if you want to get better.

  Colin Firth

  Topics in Wisdom

• We’ve always been involved with America – I have a son who lives there and it’s a big part of my life.

  Colin Firth

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Involved, Lives

• To be bothered wherever you go – it’s not a rational thing to want at all.

  Colin Firth

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rational, Thing

• They’re not bombarding me with offers, although the ones that have come along have been too preposterous to contemplate, so it’s not as if I spend every day resisting $20 million pay cheques.

  Colin Firth

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Contemplate, Offers

• The last thing I would attempt to do is to buy clothes for a child I didn’t know well.

  Colin Firth

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Clothes, Attempt

• 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.

  Colin Firth

  Topics in Country

  Tags in People, Understand

• 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.

  Colin Firth

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Different, Something

• 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.

  Colin Firth

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Actually, Decided

• My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.

  Colin Firth

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Problem, Voice

• My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It’s thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that’s not me. Often with actors, it’s a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where’s the substance?

  Colin Firth

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Transformation, Instinct, Wondering

• My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I’ve sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there’s no virtue in that; it’s the way one is raised.

  Colin Firth

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Profession, Parents, Complicity

• 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.

  Colin Firth

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Everything, Recognised

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

  Colin Firth

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Minister, Common

• Most actors will tell you they have some sort of dream of doing something other than what they’re doing.

  Colin Firth

  Topics in Dream

  Tags in Actors, Something

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Something, Yourself, Associate

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Definitely, Middle, Adrift

• If you don’t mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there.

  Colin Firth

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Freedom, Haunting

• I’m not patient, and some things drive me crazy. In my work, I get incredibly upset when people don’t get it right or don’t respect others’ needs.

  Colin Firth

  Topics in Respect, Work

  Tags in People, Incredibly

• I’d love to try my hand at something else.

  Colin Firth

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Something, Try

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

  Colin Firth

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Thought, Good

Colin Firth (38)

Birth:	10th September, 1960
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor, Producer, Screenwriter

About

Colin Andrew Firth was born in Grayshott, Hampshire, England. He is an English actor, producer and screenwriter. He has received an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, two BAFTAs and three Screen Actors Guild Awards, as well as the Volpi Cup. His most notable and acclaimed role to date has been his 2010 portrayal of King George VI in The King's Speech, a performance that earned him the Oscar and multiple worldwide best actor awards. In 2011, Firth received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was also selected as one of the Time 100.

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