Colin Firth Quotes

If I were to write a book about the progress of getting to a third film, it would be a long one.

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• There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Life
  • Great
  • Trying

• If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Time
  • Work
  • Writing

• You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • You
  • Australia
  • Everywhere

• Texas is a pretty free state.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Pretty
  • Free
  • Texas

• The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • American
  • Strong

• A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.

  

  Ida Tarbell
  • Mind
  • Hold
  • Lays

• Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Like
  • Born
  • Almost

• Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Nature
  • Body
  • Gym

• I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over by Walter O'Malley, you couldn't even mention Mr. Rickey's name in front of him. I considered Mr. Rickey the greatest human being I had ever known.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Future
  • Taken
  • Name

• Put me in a costume, and I'm your man. I must have one of those faces which seems to suit period drama more than modern films and TV programmes. But I'm not complaining, I love going back in time. I feel quite lucky because nobody knows who I am. I can walk about and have ordinary conversations with people.

  

  Hans Matheson
  • People
  • Time
  • Love

• How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • People
  • Work
  • Think

• The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their viewership or readership.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Powerful
  • Media
  • Create

• The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified.

  

  Wayne White
  • Purpose
  • Leave
  • Drive

• The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Up
  • Power
  • Know

• The first information I consume in the morning is probably 'The New York Times' and then my Twitter feed. I think Twitter is a really fascinating, easy way to stay on top of what stories are out there.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Morning
  • Easy
  • New York

• Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Heart
  • Home
  • Win

• Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Thoughts
  • Thought

• I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Walking
  • Creative
  • Process

• Obviously, Jo and I, as a couple, we just don't want to redline. You know, we don't want to run so hard after some dream or some goal only to find out that we've neglected the thing that means the very most to us, which is our marriage and our relationship.

  

  Chip Gaines
  • Dream
  • Relationship
  • Marriage

• One of my favorite poses was when working with Steven Meisel. It was one of my first photo shoots with him, and we were trying to get the cover of Italian 'Vogue.' Then, I literally took my Balenciaga hat, pulled it down, and gave a rolling-eye, 'ugh' face, crossed legs on the floor. And lo and behold, that was the cover of Italian 'Vogue.'

  

  Coco Rocha
  • Trying
  • Italian

• Oftentimes you find partnerships or there might be companies or conglomerates and there's no real partnership. There's no real marriage. Partnership requires that, it requires two people putting their arms around each other, or two sets of ideas, wrapping their arms around each other and saying we believe in the same thing.

  

  Saint Jhn
  • Ideas
  • Marriage
  • Partnership

• It's taken me a long time to get work, so that's why I like to play really different characters that are really foreign to me. I want it to be something great, and I want to have a great experience.

  

  Boyd Holbrook
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• Here's the thing - I mean, I don't act for statues. I really don't. The great thing about winning an award is that it creates opportunities.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • Great
  • Winning

• If I were to write a book about the progress of getting to a third film, it would be a long one.

  

  Colin Firth
  • Long
  • Book
  • Progress