Colin Farrell Quotes

• I couldn’t care less about who sees my bits… My friends asked how I could do scenes like that and not get excited, but it wasn’t like that. My bits looked the size of a cashew nut!

  Colin Farrell

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  Tags in Care, Friends, Excited

• Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.

  Colin Farrell

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• Anything that’s different from your own realm of experience as a human being, whether it’s driving a car or a boat, or using guns, anything that separates you from yourself and leads you more towards this character’s existence is a big help.

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  Tags in Different, Existence

• I think I’m still trying to find my feet as an actor. And I know it ain’t brain surgery, but it confuses me and it comes between me and my sleep a lot.

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  Tags in Think, Confuses, Trying

• I’ll be in Los Angeles for two weeks and I’ll have a laugh, get battered and have a buzz, but at the end of the day, I’ll go home. It’s just me earning a few more stories to tell everyone at home and all.

  Colin Farrell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Stories, Home, Earning

• I’m in no hurry to get anywhere. I don’t have any plans. I don’t have a map. If you did in this business, you’d destroy yourself.

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  Topics in Business

  Tags in Yourself, Destroy

• I’m just a true Irish boy at heart.

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  Tags in Heart, True

• But we’re born as children and we look at the world with open eyes… And we don’t judge and we don’t betray. We’re not jealous. We’re not envious. We’re not even weary, which is a danger also as kids. They have to learn a certain amount of awareness.

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• It’s not that I’m stupid. I just don’t think sometimes.

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• I couldn’t care less about who sees my bits… My friends asked how I could do scenes like that and not get excited, but it wasn’t like that. My bits looked the size of a cashew nut!

  Colin Farrell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Friends, Looked

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  My Dublin wasn’t the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.

   

  Colin Farrell

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  Tags in Music, Traditional, Community

• I’m not painting myself as a down-home, modest guy.

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  Tags in Myself, Modest

• I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate – it’s not a new philosophy I’m sharing – more than hardship, hardship tends to unify.

  Colin Farrell

  Topics in Nature, Success

  Tags in Tribal, Sometimes

• Vampires have always held a very seductive kind of lore and have always been some variety of attractive, whether it’s attractiveness that’s born of just the physical attributes that they have – this kind of ethereal beauty or translucent pallor – or whether it is more to do with the way they carry themselves.

  Colin Farrell

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Attractive, Kind, Physical

• Pain seems to be easier, or melancholy seems to be easier to portray in a character. I don’t know if that’s because I’m a human being or because I’m an Irishman or both.

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  Tags in Pain, Character, Human

• I know what the important things are in life. I know that just because I pretend to be someone else for two hours on the silver screen doesn’t make me a better person than the next man. So, I mind all those things. Simple things.

  Colin Farrell

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  Tags in Important, Things, Better

• I do enjoy reading some science fiction.

  Colin Farrell

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  Tags in Enjoy, Fiction

• You know. I’ll try anything. I’ll do anything. I’ll explore. Try different takes. All that kind of stuff to do sometimes, to do good performances, but always conducive to having a good time creatively.

  Colin Farrell

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  Tags in Different, Performances, Good

• I’ve realized as well after five years of being on the road that if I’m going to four or five months of my life to something even if I’m overpaid, it’s four or five months of my life away from home, away from my son, away from family and friends. I better believe in it on some level even if it’s a big movie.

  Colin Farrell

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Realized, Believe, Movie, Friends

• But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I’ll miss the present.

  Colin Farrell

  Topics in Future

  Tags in Think, Present

Colin Farrell (25)

Birth:	31st May, 1976
Nationality:	Irish
Profession:	Actor

About

Colin James Farrell was born in Baldoyle, Dublin, Ireland. He is an Irish actor. He starred in Schumacher's psychological thriller Phone Booth and the American thrillers S.W.A.T. and The Recruit, establishing his international box-office appeal. He  appeared in Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi thriller Minority Report  and as the villain Bullseye in the Daredevil superhero film. In 2015, he stars in the second season of HBO's True Detective series with Vince Vaughn and Rachel McAdams.

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