Colin Firth Quotes

Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.

Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn't normally be called upon in life.

I think that's part of the fun of being an actor - you get to not be normal all of the time.

As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.

I love to act and put on a show, but you're playing a character all the time. For music, it's really just me being myself.

I choose roles that are not me.

I think you always learn something in every character you play onstage, either personally or creatively.

What acting offered me was the chance to be many other people.

I like to be flamboyant, play characters, wear make-up, play dress up. I was doing that since I was a kid.

Acting is what I do with who I am.

My character in 'OK OK' has a lot of attitude, and it is an interesting one.

I find often in Hollywood there are many people who play themselves really beautifully. And certain parts are not that dissimilar from who you are as a person. And there are other parts where you would like to think that you have nothing in common with those characters, but you probably do have more than you think.

I feel like I never get to play any version of myself or get to be a normal person.

Sometimes you walk away from playing somebody and you think, "Wow that was far as from my own experience as I can possibly be." And sometimes you walk away thinking, "Wow. There are qualities in that character that I didn't realize I had." And those can be both interesting and uncomfortable.

Sometimes an actor performs a character, but sometimes an actor just performs. With writing, I don't think it's performing a character, really, if the character you're performing is yourself. I don't see that as playing a role. It's just appearing in public.

The great thing about acting is, because you're constantly playing other characters and exploring yourself because you have to find those other characters in yourself, you sort of broaden as a person over your life because you've been other people. So you can empathize with many different sorts of people. It's great in that way and I hope, therefore, as you get older as an actor, you not only get more interesting because you lived more, but you get a bit wiser as a person.

As an actor, I've been drawn to those characters that are further away from who I may be.

Sometimes I like to think that characters you play are all the other people you could've been in a lifetime.

I don't think there's a certain part of a character I take with me. There's a certain part of me I leave with each character, though.

I think everybody should act! I would encourage everybody to do one thing, join a theater class or something. It's so good to take a character that you think is wildly different from who you are, and to try to relate to that person and become that person is very helpful. It's hard to articulate what you learn, but you can feel the effect of these characters that you play and take with you.

I think the beautiful thing about acting is you don't really know who you are. You're able to be whatever you want any day during the week.

I think in every character there are aspects of yourself that you bring to it. But then it would be really boring to just play yourself.

I think the greatest thing about being an actor is that you can become other people. ... You have the opportunity to explore ... alternative ways of living for a brief time.

I always say that I can play sort of six variations on one girl, all of whom are a variation on me. Maybe I'll think of myself as an actor if, like, I do a corset drama.

To be really great and interesting, you have to be a little crazy. I just don't think one comes without the other.