“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
“And that is a hard route for a woman to come through. There's still a lot of roles that have to be conformed to. It's quite an old fashioned environment in a lot of ways.” WayStillsHardRolesEnvironmentRoutesOld Fashioned Author:Colin Firth
“I do also think it eludes genre a bit - not in any groundbreaking way but you can't quite call it a comedy and you can't quite call it a romantic anything. It's not quite a drama either really. But it has elements of all those things.” ThinkingWayBitsComedyDramaElementsGenreEludeGroundbreaking Author:Colin Firth
“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.” ThinkingWayHappensHonestyStrangeHelen Author:Colin Firth
“I was gearing up for it. I took some singing lessons. And I opened my mouth, and Atom promptly said, 'That's not going to happen. We love your voice, but maybe we could use some of your English wit.' He had doubts about it from way back. For starters, we weren't going to be doing the Italian-American crooning thing.” WaySaidUseHappensVoiceDoubtLove YouLessonsSingingMouthsWitItalianAtomsStartersItalian AmericanGearing Up Author: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.” WayLooksMadeStillsI CanStreetsOne Way Author: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.” PeopleWayParentVirtueTeachingRaisedProfessionMedicalEngagedGrandparentLives Of OthersPriesthoodMedical ProfessionComplicityParents And Grandparents Author:Colin Firth
