Colin Farrell Quotes

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.
Colin Farrell

Judge, Children, Jealous

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

Saint Patrick's Day, Irish, Everywhere

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

Beauty, Themselves, Whether

It's not that I'm stupid. I just don't think sometimes.
Colin Farrell

Stupid, Sometimes

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

Life, Mind, Simple

I'm just a true Irish boy at heart.
Colin Farrell

Heart, True, Irish

But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.
Colin Farrell

Future, Far, Risk

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

Experience, Car, Yourself

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

Success, Nature, Mean

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

Care, Friends, Less

I do enjoy reading some science fiction.
Colin Farrell

Science, Enjoy, Reading

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.
Colin Farrell

Sleep, Brain, 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

Home, End, Laugh

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

Business, Yourself, Destroy

I'm not going to lie, there are more interesting ways to spend your time than answering questions about yourself. But if there were no questions to ask me, I might have a beef with that.
Colin Farrell

Time, Yourself, Lie

I'm not painting myself as a down-home, modest guy.
Colin Farrell

Guy, Painting, Modest

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

Life, Family, Home

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

After, Read, Connect

Magic is at the core of myths.
Colin Farrell

Magic, Myths, Core

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

Music, History, Place

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.
Colin Farrell

Pain, Character, Human

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.
Colin Farrell

Love, Time, Strength

The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.
Colin Farrell

Sea, Stories, Countries

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

Time, Good, Different

You're scrutinized all through your life - you're scrutinized by your family, by yourself, by society, and your friends in a certain way, shape, or form.
Colin Farrell

Life, Family, Society

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Actor

Born: May 31, 1976

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