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In filming, you're waiting - you're waiting for lights, you're waiting for people to set things up - and when you're not waiting, you're repeating.

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

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

Colin Firth

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

If you play a role, you want to familiarize yourself with that person's world. If I were playing an airline pilot or a doctor, I'd probably want to hang out with a doctor or an airplane pilot for a while, ask some questions. You don't get to hang out the kings. They don't help consult on movies. So your resources are, by necessity, secondary.

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

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

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 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 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.

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

Obviously, if people love a movie, and it has the possibility of continuation, then there is going to be a question of whether it's worth doing another one. There's also cynicism and skepticism about sequels.

Colin Firth

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

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

Colin Firth

I work with the options I have in front of me and my reasons for choosing a job can vary enormously depending on the circumstances. Sometimes I take a job because it's a group of people I'm dying to work with, and sometimes it can be a desire to shake things up a bit and not to take myself too seriously.

Colin Firth

The only reason I'm in 'Kingsman' is because Matthew enjoys playing with the unexpected. I'm not playing Harry Hart because I'm the butchest actor in Britain. I'm playing it because he said I'm the last person anyone would expect to see in that role!

Colin Firth

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

Colin Firth

To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all.

Colin Firth

I can't imagine seeing Batman in black and white. It was such a colourful TV series. I know. I'm ancient. It wasn't abnormal to be without a television in those days. People who had colour were special.

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

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

Colin Firth

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

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

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

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

Colin Firth

One of the things that makes you want to be an actor, speaking only for myself, is that there's something infantile about it. You're suspending disbelief, pretending and entering into a story world.

Colin Firth

Growing up, my mates and I would have rather been Sid Vicious or members of the Royal Family.

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

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

Colin Firth

I do think I'm a character actor.

Colin Firth

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

Colin Firth

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

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

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

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

Colin Firth