“If you're playing someone who's impeded by fear, or shyness, or has whatever dysfunction your character might have, you have to achieve the dysfunction first, imaginatively, in order to play someone who is trying to negotiate their way out of it.” IfsWayTryingFirstsPlayCharacterMightOrderAchieveShynessDysfunctionPlaying Someone Author:Colin Firth
“Doing a job, or even watching a film, can make a difference to your life, but I don't think it ever has an explosive impact where your life will never be the same again. It kind of seeps into your life, and perhaps realise you're a little more vigilant about certain things than you might have been.” ThinkingKindLittlesHas BeensMightJobsFilmCertainDifferencesImpactMaking A DifferenceRealisingMight Have BeenExplosivesVigilant Author:Colin Firth
“If I'd loved my chemistry teacher and my maths teacher, goodness knows what direction my life might have gone in. I remember there was a primary school teacher who really woke me up to the joys of school for about one year when I was ten. He made me interested in things I would otherwise not have been interested in - because he was a brilliant teacher. He was instrumental in making me think learning was quite exciting.” IfsThinkingKnowsYearsHas BeensMadeMightSchoolRememberJoyGoneTeacherTenGoodnessExcitingMathBrilliantPrimariesChemistrySchool TeachersPrimary SchoolMath TeacherChemistry Teachers Author:Colin Firth
“But it's interesting being directed by someone who is a very good actor. There's nothing like it. It might sound like a territorial thing about what I do, but I don't think you can understand what it is until you've done it. I know that to be a fact.” ThinkingKnowsDoneFactsMightActorsSoundInterestingVery GoodGood ActorsTerritorial Author:Colin Firth
“I have a great deal of respect for the craft, I don't know how much respect it has for me. But it's a precision process. Doing it on stage would be, I think, terrifying. Doing it on film has its own difficulties, because film is not conducive to spontaneity. You might have a run through and get a few chuckles at eight o'clock in the morning, but you don't keep laughing at the same thing all day long.” ThinkingKnowsLongMightWould BeRunningFilmProcessDealsMorningLaughingKnow HowStageDifficultyEightCraftsClockSpontaneityPrecisionChuckles Author:Colin Firth
“I like playing strange characters. Some people might say it has something to do with a hidden part of myself, but I think it's a lot simpler than that: normal people are just not very interesting.” PeopleThinkingCharacterMightInterestingStrangeNormalVery Interesting Author:Colin Firth
