Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering.
COLIN FIRTH To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all.
COLIN FIRTH It does help to actually realize that however stunning the person who is, you know, fluttering eyela...
COLIN FIRTH My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.
COLIN FIRTH I think that, often, actors represent what they're not. You get people who define the aristocrac...
COLIN FIRTH In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a conf...
COLIN FIRTH I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my...
COLIN FIRTH Looking in the mirror, staring back at me isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.
COLIN FIRTH Some people would say comedy draws from some dark places, from your dark stuff. Life's great opt...
COLIN FIRTH I absolutely don't care about my looks and I'm so used to them that I wouldn't change a ...
COLIN FIRTH One of the things that makes you want to be an actor, speaking only for myself, is that there's ...
COLIN FIRTH The thing is that anybody looks good in the right clothes. It will affect your bearing. It will affe...
COLIN FIRTH We all know the dangers of sequels. Lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place too often, ...
COLIN FIRTH The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. The...
COLIN FIRTH One of my grandfathers, actually, having gone out there as a minister, decided he would better serve...
COLIN FIRTH Something like 'A Single Man,' it was tiny; it was financed by one guy. We all lost money do...
COLIN FIRTH I was gearing up for it. I took some singing lessons. And I opened my mouth, and Atom promptly said,...
COLIN FIRTH And I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious...
COLIN FIRTH There was quite a lot of your rear end that didn't make it either.
COLIN FIRTH Something about being given that microphone and if you're dressed right and the spotlights are on yo...
COLIN FIRTH The sheer level of fascination on the subject is really a symptom of how this issue affects people, ...
COLIN FIRTH I have a kind of neutrality, physically, which has helped me. I have a face that can be made to look...
COLIN FIRTH It made me uncomfortable,
COLIN FIRTH is that it is like Hamlet. If you thought about who had played it before, you'd never play Hamlet ag...
COLIN FIRTH People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It'...
COLIN FIRTH The only reason I'm in 'Kingsman' is because Matthew enjoys playing with the unexpected....
COLIN FIRTH If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there.
COLIN FIRTH Forget trying to be sexy. That's just gruesome.
COLIN FIRTH It's an Atom Egoyan movie, ... We know he's not the world's great pornographer. It's hard to quantif...
COLIN FIRTH All we can do is hope and pray - on suggestions Hugh Grant will retire soon
COLIN FIRTH I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky.
COLIN FIRTH The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. The...
COLIN FIRTH Whenever you take on playing a villain, he has to cease to be a villain to you. If you judge this ma...
COLIN FIRTH Some people do it with irony and humor. Some people do it earnestly. Some people are ashamed of havi...
COLIN FIRTH Colin is the sort of name you give your goldfish for a joke.
COLIN FIRTH On his fight scene with Hugh Grant in Bridget Jones: It was a delicious experience.
COLIN FIRTH People coming up and saying something nice is always welcome. But when you're being secretly pho...
COLIN FIRTH Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of ju...
COLIN FIRTH They're not bombarding me with offers, although the ones that have come along have been too prep...
COLIN FIRTH I was in a lake in 'Love Actually', and I was attacked by some hideous aquatic beast and was...
COLIN FIRTH It's a film called 'Kursk', which is a true story about a submarine disaster. There was ...
COLIN FIRTH In filming, you're waiting - you're waiting for lights, you're waiting for people to set...
COLIN FIRTH My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the pr...
COLIN FIRTH I think that London is very much like that. I find there's humour in the air and people are inte...
COLIN FIRTH If you play a role, you want to familiarize yourself with that person's world. If I were playing...
COLIN FIRTH Obviously, if people love a movie, and it has the possibility of continuation, then there is going t...
COLIN FIRTH I've been out for a few weeks with shoulder injury but I'm having constant treatment to try to get r...
JASON FIRTH When you get to this point, it's usually fairly clear which side is winning or losing, so one of the...
JASON FIRTH Generally, these sorts of cases settle when you get this close to an injunction or order being issue...
JASON FIRTH You have to train hard and be strong while staying flexible and limber, so I'm trying to find th...
COLIN KAEPERNICK I've had times where one of my roommates was moving out of the house in college, and because we ...
COLIN KAEPERNICK Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
COLIN POWELL My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight o...
COLIN POWELL Nobody cares if you're black, white, straight, gay, Christian, Jewish, whatever it may be. When ...
COLIN KAEPERNICK I collect watches because I'm always late, and I need to know exactly how late I'm going to ...
COLIN HANKS I'm going to continue to stand with the people that are being oppressed.
COLIN KAEPERNICK We have a lot of people that are oppressed. We have a lot of people that aren't treated equally,...
COLIN KAEPERNICK At MIT, in Professor Rodney Brooks' lab, I was involved in a project, led by Anita Flynn, to bui...
COLIN ANGLE I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, w...
COLIN POWELL I thought boxes were the best toy. When my parents got a new car, I ran to my mother and said, '...
COLIN ANGLE Dr. Miller says we are pessimistic because life seems like a very bad, very screwed-up film. If you ...
COLIN WILSON Isaiah Berlin once said that there are two kinds of writers, hedgehogs and foxes. He said the fox kn...
COLIN WILSON It is clear as you look at the team why Data Point Capital has so quickly become one of the premier ...
COLIN ANGLE 'Lucky' is for laughs, and there's really nothing funny that I'm doing on 'Dexte...
COLIN HANKS I've said before: 'If you're going to earnestly sing a song around a campfire, you'd...
COLIN TREVORROW I've said before, if you're going to earnestly sing a song around a campfire, you'd bett...
COLIN TREVORROW I'm handsome, no ands, buts or ifs.
COLIN MOCHRIE I'm a horrible business person.
COLIN TREVORROW A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.
COLIN WILSON I want everybody to be scared to death of us. I don't say that in a bellicose way. I say that in a w...
COLIN POWELL The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have...
COLIN POWELL Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vi...
COLIN POWELL We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this count...
COLIN POWELL Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it...
COLIN POWELL Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your...
COLIN POWELL It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.
COLIN POWELL Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
COLIN POWELL Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard...
COLIN POWELL We have a presidential candidate who's deleted emails and done things illegally and is a preside...
COLIN KAEPERNICK It was just something - I didn't agree with what the flag was representing at this time, and you...
COLIN KAEPERNICK I have great respect for the men and women that have fought for this country. I have family, I have ...
COLIN KAEPERNICK To me, I'm going out there focusing on competing, not worrying about cardio or anything like tha...
COLIN KAEPERNICK The NFL is a performance-based business, so you should have to perform to earn some of your money. A...
COLIN KAEPERNICK I'm going to speak the truth when I'm asked about it.
COLIN KAEPERNICK Sometimes, when things are going really well, I feel like I've already seen things - it's th...
COLIN KAEPERNICK At the end of the day, you have to look at, 'Are they knowledgeable? Are they doing their job?&#...
COLIN KAEPERNICK If you're going to do something, you're going to do it to be the best.
COLIN KAEPERNICK I have great respect for people's right to believe what they want to believe. And I don't th...
COLIN KAEPERNICK I'll never take the easy way out.
COLIN KAEPERNICK There's a lot of things that need to change. One specifically? Police brutality.
COLIN KAEPERNICK I think I'm still trying to find my feet as an actor. And I know it ain't brain surgery, but...
COLIN FARRELL I didn't want to come up with some generic Johnny Bravo type name. I'm not that cool, so I m...
COLIN HANKS Either move or be moved.
COLIN POWELL Policies that emanate from ivory towers often have an adverse impact on the people out in the field ...
COLIN POWELL 90% of my time is spent on 10% of the world.
COLIN POWELL Get mad, then get over it.
COLIN POWELL Experts often possess more data than judgment.
COLIN POWELL It is true that there are exercises that can strengthen the 'muscle' that enable us to push back the...
COLIN WILSON A publisher is a specialized form of bank or building society, catering for customers who cannot cop...
COLIN HAYCRAFT To be conservative requires no brains whatsoever. Cabbages, cows and conifers are conservatives, and...
COLIN WELCH There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.
COLIN HAY But you have to understand, American democracy is not like the system you have. We're not an ocean l...
COLIN POWELL Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforti...
COLIN POWELL The complex develops out of the simple.
COLIN WILSON Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough
COLIN POWELL Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.
COLIN POWELL Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories o...
COLIN POWELL There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failu...
COLIN POWELL Most people don't want to change. They're comfortable and set in their ways. But in order to...
COLIN KAEPERNICK For me that's what's fascinating about the internet, that aggregate thing.
COLIN GREENWOOD This stand wasn't because I feel like I'm being put down in any kind of way. This is because...
COLIN KAEPERNICK Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.
COLIN POWELL No matter where you are in your life, whatever set of people you're with, it all still breaks do...
COLIN HANKS The American audiences are more vocal and enthusiastic. British audiences tend to sit back a little ...
COLIN MOCHRIE We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that wou...
COLIN POWELL I think that's something that's hard for this country to address, is what the real issues ar...
COLIN KAEPERNICK I don't believe that a female character needs to surrender her femininity in order to be an acti...
COLIN TREVORROW People don't realize what's really going on in this country. There are a lot things that are...
COLIN KAEPERNICK Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approac...
COLIN POWELL Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
COLIN POWELL A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
COLIN POWELL People are fascinated by robots because they're machines that can mimic life.
COLIN ANGLE I realize that men and women of the military go out and sacrifice their lives and put their selves i...
COLIN KAEPERNICK Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you hav...
COLIN POWELL But we're born as children and we look at the world with open eyes... And we don't judge and...
COLIN FARRELL I do enjoy reading some science fiction.
COLIN FARRELL If after you read something, you connect with it, you want to do it.
COLIN FARRELL What my first son James did was allow me to care for something in this world when I couldn't car...
COLIN FARRELL The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries...
COLIN FARRELL I was never an A student, but I was really well behaved until I was 13 or so.
COLIN FARRELL I'm just a true Irish boy at heart.
COLIN FARRELL I couldn't care less about who sees my bits... My friends asked how I could do scenes like that ...
COLIN FARRELL You spend so much time in your head in life. And what yoga does is, it asks you to allow your head t...
COLIN FARRELL I'm not keen on cars and motorbikes. I tried to be a biker, but it wasn't me - I bought a Ha...
COLIN FARRELL But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.
COLIN FARRELL I know what the important things are in life. I know that just because I pretend to be someone else ...
COLIN FARRELL My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and com...
COLIN FARRELL I'm a big old romantic.
COLIN FARRELL You're scrutinized all through your life - you're scrutinized by your family, by yourself, b...
COLIN FARRELL I'm not going to lie, there are more interesting ways to spend your time than answering question...
COLIN FARRELL It's not that I'm stupid. I just don't think sometimes.
COLIN FARRELL Pain seems to be easier, or melancholy seems to be easier to portray in a character. I don't kno...
COLIN FARRELL You know. I'll try anything. I'll do anything. I'll explore. Try different takes. All th...
COLIN FARRELL I will say that as I get older and calmer and quieter in my own self, the one quality in a woman tha...
COLIN FARRELL I've got plenty of love in my life already in the form of my sons and a few good friends who I v...
COLIN FARRELL I've never seen a moon in the sky that, if it didn't take my breath away, at least misplaced...
COLIN FARRELL Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.
COLIN FARRELL The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, 'Gee, ...
COLIN POWELL It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a p...
COLIN POWELL I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winni...
COLIN POWELL I do want to be a representative of the African community, and I want to hold myself and dress mysel...
COLIN KAEPERNICK When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be ...
COLIN POWELL But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you&#...
COLIN POWELL I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and peo...
COLIN KAEPERNICK In other words, don't expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a no...
COLIN POWELL If a leader doesn't convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity wit...
COLIN POWELL A lot of them have families to feed, and I think it's a tragic situation where players aren'...
COLIN KAEPERNICK There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the...
COLIN POWELL I thought Charlize Theron was awesome in 'Mad Max,' and that was a very masculine kind of he...
COLIN TREVORROW Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But y...
COLIN POWELL My very clear vision for the ideal Roomba is one you never see and you never touch. Our research pri...
COLIN ANGLE I started to watch 'Play for Today' and plays like 'Cathy Come Home,' and Kenneth Br...
COLIN SALMON I learned to canoe at summer camp and thought I'd pursue Olympic whitewater canoeing. In my seni...
COLIN ANGLE You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda....
COLIN POWELL Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.
COLIN POWELL We would go back and maybe not say that thing to our dad that we said, or maybe be a little nicer to...
COLIN TREVORROW To me, when people say, 'Oh, you're a freak athlete,' it's bittersweet. It's a h...
COLIN KAEPERNICK Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it...
COLIN POWELL The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.
COLIN POWELL The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standin...
COLIN WILSON The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an o...
COLIN POWELL Vampires have always held a very seductive kind of lore and have always been some variety of attract...
COLIN FARRELL Our top story tonight: Famous TV dolphin flipper was arrested today on prostitution ring charges. He...
COLIN MOCHRIE There's no point apologizing about where you come from.
COLIN GREENWOOD Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death - and everything else is open to discussion.
COLIN FARRELL Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, t...
COLIN POWELL You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nati...
COLIN POWELL I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but th...
COLIN POWELL As a kid, I was always very shy growing up - I wasn't very good at articulating my thoughts or m...
COLIN EGGLESFIELD It's going to be interesting to see how society deals with artificial intelligence, but it will ...
COLIN ANGLE People are dying in vain because this country isn't holding their end of the bargain up as far a...
COLIN KAEPERNICK The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Barbra Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, these are just some of the people ...
COLIN MOCHRIE I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that...
COLIN POWELL We'll be back to our nature documentary, 'Baggy the Anorexic Elephant' in just a second.
COLIN MOCHRIE You know, the funny thing about Lorne and that show is that, you can go over one million things, but...
COLIN QUINN You know, the funny thing about Lorne and that show is that, you can go over one million things, but...
COLIN QUINN Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.
COLIN POWELL In high school, I worked at The Video Room in Oakland, California. It had the largest selection of l...
COLIN TREVORROW I was always kind of serious. It's nice to be able to play a complete bad boy who's the pola...
COLIN O'DONOGHUE Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.
COLIN POWELL You have to take care of the ball to win football games.
COLIN KAEPERNICK Many people think it's in bad taste to advertise for an insane asylum... but come on down. We...
COLIN MOCHRIE Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.
COLIN POWELL When I look back now I realize I was such an obnoxious kid but, you know, I went to schools like you...
COLIN QUINN This just in: Beverly Hills 90210, Cleveland Browns 3.
COLIN MOCHRIE Not to belittle what we do as actors, but my wife Helen is a teacher, and she makes a real differenc...
COLIN O'DONOGHUE There are so many things I'd like to change in the industry. Everything from the reliance of sty...
COLIN MOCHRIE I don't believe in pressure. The pressure is not being prepared for what you want to do.
COLIN KAEPERNICK Woody Allen movies are like Beatles songs. I can't name my favorite without you immediately nami...
COLIN TREVORROW I've realized as well after five years of being on the road that if I'm going to four or fiv...
COLIN FARRELL