Colin firth

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

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...

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

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.

If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there.

I do notice that when I've been away and I come back to London. People look at you. People are ready to pick arguments.

I do think I'm a character actor.

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

I have a kind of neutrality, physically, which has helped me. I have a face that can be made to look a lot better - or a lot worse.

In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class Englishman adrift in smalltown America and that has definitely been...