Colin Firth Quotes

But This Is Where You Get All The Market Research And Things Get In Danger Of Becoming Formulaic, And Where You Depend On Brands And Getting Recognised Actors. It's The Thing That Precludes Risk Very Often, Otherwise Everyone Would Be Avant-garde All Over The Place.

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.

Comedy - Particularly The Frothy And Frivolous - Is Notoriously Neglected By Festivals And Awards. But It's Bloody Hard To Get Right.

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.

Some People Come Up To Be Directors By Coming Through The Camera Department And There's Not A Lot Of Women In The Camera Department. The Ones That Are Have To Kind Of Prove They're One Of The Boys, I Think. I Don't Want To Get Into Trouble With Generalisations But I Think It's A Fair Observation.

I Thought I Was Managing My Expectations, But On Hearing The News I Discovered New And Unfamiliar Vocal Tones. Perhaps I Should Do Another Musical.

I Don't Know If This Qualifies As Gentle Reassurance, But Right Now This Is All That Stands Between Me And A Harley-davidson.

The Way I've Described Helen's Sort Of Rigorous Honesty I Just Think He Also Has Tremendously. It's Very Strange... He Just Has This Sort Of Way Of Making It Happen Really. You're Not Really Aware Of Being Directed, So Much As Being A Part Of This Thing.

I've Actually Heard People Protesting Furiously About Straight Male Costume People As Well. It's Not Universal And There Are Examples That Break The Mould All Over The Place. In My Experience, It's More Prevalent In The Uk Than In America.

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.

Something Like Shakespeare In Love, Which Became Such An Established Hit That It Now Seems Like A Foregone Conclusion... But It Really Wasn't. The Script Was Around For A Very, Very Long Time And Had People Chickening Out All The Time.