Colin Firth

“I'd love to try my hand at something else.”

“When I'm really into a novel, I'm seeing the world differently during that time— not just for the hour or so in the day when I get to read. I'm actually walking around in a haze, spellbound by the book and looking at everything through a different prism.”

“I'm not patient, and some things drive me crazy. In my work, I get incredibly upset when people don't get it right or don't respect others' needs.”

“To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all.”

“I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year.”

“If I were to write a book about the progress of getting to a third film, it would be a long one.”

“Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering.”

“One of the things that makes you want to be an actor, speaking only for myself, is that there's something infantile about it. You're suspending disbelief, pretending and entering into a story world.”

“I enjoy playing Mr. Darcy, but I'm not hungry to play Mark Darcy again.”

“I've grown up surrounded by Americans and to a very large extent feel American. It sounds strange because I seem to be so quintessentially English in everyone's mind - and perhaps I am. Perhaps it's quintessentially English to have a fascination with America.”

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

“I love 'Manhattan', and I know it's not one of Woody's favorites.”

“As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but I'm not greedy for that stuff.”

“People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different.”

“I backpacked through France and Italy in my teens, and then I was at Cannes with the first movie I did in '84.”

“A life of very, very serious, po-faced films would drive me nuts. I need - and I'm fortunate to have - a fairly varied menu in that respect. I mean, I was shooting 'Mamma Mia!' at the same time as I was doing Michael Winterbottom's 'Genova'. That was a very, very bizarre summer.”

“My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.”

“We all know the dangers of sequels. Lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place too often, and I think you've got to move beyond it, go the extra mile and have the courage not to just repeat the first one.”

“Obviously, if people love a movie, and it has the possibility of continuation, then there is going to be a question of whether it's worth doing another one. There's also cynicism and skepticism about sequels.”

“Hollywood hasn't aggressively pursued me. Neither have I aggressively pursued Hollywood.”