Colin Farrell Quotes

• Magic is at the core of myths.

  Colin Farrell

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• The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors’ fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.

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• The first time you hold your baby in your arms, I mean, a sense of strength and love washes over you. It washed over me and I never thought that possible.

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

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• 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.

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  Tags in Realized, Believe, Movie, Friends

• I do enjoy reading some science fiction.

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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.

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  Tags in Different, Performances, Good

• 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.

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• 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

• 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.

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  Tags in Attractive, Kind, Physical

• If after you read something, you connect with it, you want to do it.

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  Tags in Read, Connect

• 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

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  Tags in Tribal, Sometimes

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

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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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• 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!

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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.

  Colin Farrell

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Different, Existence

• 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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• I’m just a true Irish boy at heart.

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  Tags in Heart, True

• 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.

  Colin Farrell

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Yourself, Destroy

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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