218 Quotes by Colin Firth

It’s a very dangerous state. You are inclined to recklessness and kind of tune out the rest of your life and everything that’s been important to you. It’s actually not all that pleasurable. I don’t know who the hell wants to get in a situation where you can’t bear an hour without somebody’s company.

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.

I never saw myself as Mr. Ugly, but I’m not that handsome. I can sort of be made to look quite a lot better or quite a lot worse.

The great thing about dealing with people about whom we have historical resources, is that if the writing needs work, there’s everywhere to go to enrich it.

When I visited coffee farms in Ethiopia, the farmers could not believe we spend a week’s wages in their country on a cup of coffee in ours, because they see so little of the profits. Oxfam’s fair trade campaign helps right this wrong.

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.

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.

Looking in the mirror, staring back at me isn’t so much a face as the expression of a predicament.

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