218 Quotes by Colin Firth

It’s a funny thing – the reality is I have no feelings about school. It’s long gone. Funnily enough, the bad memories – of which I don’t have any left to be honest, I can just remember a sense of tedium – have faded. And teachers that I liked have remained quite vivid. There are three or four left.

I often think it can often be very difficult for comedians to revisit the same gag. I think Russell’s a bit more than a comedian.

Just driving I just was in a car on flat ground and I couldn’t make it go. Having ticked driving and taken three driving lessons, I just was unable to produce any motion whatsoever under perfectly normal circumstances. I think we’ve all been busted on driving, and riding.

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.

I do think a good story in a novel is fair game and there’s nothing wrong with adapting that. It sometimes gets a bit facile where they think: “Let’s get the next best-seller and see if we can turn it into a film.”

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

Firth – all dodgy ‘tache and frantic eyebrows – has got the sexual allure of a man who runs a swingers’ club in Surbiton.

So, I think there’s a danger that good stuff can fall by the wayside if it doesn’t conform to formula. But I think it comes down to money and they just don’t know where it’s going if they haven’t got any precedent.

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