Colin Firth

Most actors will tell you they have some sort of dream of doing something other than what they're doing. ”

I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird. ”

I feel more comfortable in drama. Comedy is a high-wire act. I find it stressful. It's a precision science in a way. ”

Some people would say comedy draws from some dark places, from your dark stuff. Life's great optimists aren't necessarily the funniest people. ”

I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast. ”

Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real. ”

I don't want to sound smug but I am reasonably satisfied with how it's gone. I think it's fine. ”

My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s. ”

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

It's a film called 'Kursk', which is a true story about a submarine disaster. There was an accident on board a Russian submarine in the year 2000, and it stranded a large number of sailors. That's next. ”