The skill of a good actor is to make it always seem like you're in that fantastically spontaneous moment. Very often, a stand-up comedian has a different instinct, which is to reinvent. Once you've laid down some material, and made them laugh, you move on and find some new material.
Colin FirthSometimes to think about why some institutions are stable, it's interesting to go one generation back and look at the author of that stability.
Colin FirthI don't know if this qualifies as gentle reassurance, but right now this is all that stands between me and a Harley-Davidson.
Colin FirthI do think a good story in a novel is fair game and there's nothing wrong with adapting that. It sometimes gets a bit facile where they think: "Let's get the next best-seller and see if we can turn it into a film."
Colin Firth