Colin Firth Quotes

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

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• Our output and continued success is all about our culture. Ours has to be highly collaborative, and we have company-wide events and processes to make sure everyone stays aligned.

  

  Parker Harris
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• I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.

  

  Tahar Rahim
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• One of my main weaknesses is a good movie. I'll just bawl my eyes out.

  

  Randy Houser
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• When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.

  

  Ice Cube
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• The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.

  

  Yahoo Serious
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• The only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.

  

  Dan Glickman
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• I like the guys who wrote their own stuff and were able to perform it, like Seth Rogen. He popped off so young. When he did 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin,' and he was a co-producer on the movie, I was like, 'Oh my God: that's exactly what I want to do.'

  

  Adam DeVine
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• It's Will Ferrell, he does Will Ferrell movies. But if you really look at it, he tries to do something different with each one, whether it's an action cop movie like 'The Other Guys' or doing 'Talladega Nights' going into red state America or 'Casa de Mi Padre' or 'Stranger Than Fiction,' which is more of a drama.

  

  Adam McKay
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• 'Sucker Punch' is a big girl power movie.

  

  Carla Gugino
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• When we moved to L.A., I started going out for more commercials, and then one day they emailed me a movie script. The first thing I said was, 'No way. I love commercials.'

  

  Yara Shahidi
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• There's an audience out there for all these different types of things. Whether it's comedy, motion-picture drama, family movie or a cool, cutting-edge indie, it's nice to know that I can span all those different genres.

  

  Ralph Macchio
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• I never have written a movie, but there are some bad movies out there. I can make one. I definitely want to get into that because that's how you, at my level, would get a lead in a movie - by writing a low budget thing for myself. So I gotta get to it.

  

  Hannibal Buress
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• I would never try and do a remake off a movie. I think that's a whole different thing. I think everyone will always remember the first movie, and they will always compare it with the second one.

  

  Carly Schroeder
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• I am going to produce a movie of my own. I am not going to stick to the time-tested formulae of Hindi cinema. I want to make a film for the present generation. So there will be a lot of new faces in the film.

  

  Kabir Bedi
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• Toting around a full orchestra on tour is very ambitious. I would consider doing a show now and then, like do a show at Radio City or Carnegie Hall with a full orchestra.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
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• I think one of the reasons 'Gremlins' lasts and some other films don't is because I don't think the movie has a whole lot of dated things - sure, the cars, my hair, and few things here and there that date the movie - but it takes place in a sort of everytown, in a sorta non-specific time, and that gives the movie a timeless quality.

  

  Zach Galligan
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• Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.

  

  Famke Janssen
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• Somebody once said, you have to wait 20 years before you can tell if a movie's any good or not so that's probably true.

  

  Walter Hill
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• I certainly often go to a movie and don't remember exactly what the trailer had in it, except that it looked cool.

  

  Marti Noxon
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• If I wasn't making a movie, I was trying to master a new musical instrument or trying to teach myself how to shave with a straight razor. I had to find the weirdest things just to increase my understanding of other cultures or other arts or intellectual pursuits.

  

  Chris Wood
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• You moralistic dog-admitting a hierarchy in which you are subordinate, purely that you may have subordinates; licking the boots of a superior, that you may have yours in turn licked by an underling.

  

  Kenneth Burke
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• But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.

  

  Warren Zevon
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• The corner of the 'food media' that I think is troublesome to me is the shows on TV that don't really have a point or don't have a lesson to be learned. If you don't have a point, or if there's not some part of it that is meaningful and can change someone's life, in my old age, I'm just not into it.

  

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

  

  Colin Firth
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