“Actors are basically drag queens. People will tell you they act because they want to heal mankind or, you know, explore the nature of the human psyche. Yes, maybe. But basically we just want to put on a frock and dance.” - Colin Firth

“But as I got older I realized that, if I wouldn’t have chosen acting, I might have ended up in prison. They would have arrested me for being smelly and pathetic and on the streets.”

Colin Firth, April 19th, 2013:
“What’s interesting to me is not the urge to escape — I think everyone has some of that — it’s the ways in which you keep running back into the things that are lying in wait for you, that you thought you were getting away from. But yeah, I think that sense of having a slightly fractured sense of identity or ego is in a lot of actors. I think to be any good at it, or even to want to do it, something has to be dislodged.”

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Oh Colin!

Ellen Suprises Colin Firth with his wax figure