Colin Farrell Famous Quotes

"I get no kicks from going to the gym. It doesn't do it for me. Never has. Some people enjoy working out. But that's never done it for me. In the past, I'd breathe in heavily between takes. I sucked it in and did a take. That way it doesn't hurt the beer consumption at all"
"I do have the ability to explore life and to be over the moon at the smallest thing - a few pints and a craic in the pub and I'm in heaven. But I have a melancholy side to me as well. Acting allows me to feel things, it kind of buys me human experience. And I don't mean this as acting as higher cause, because it's not, but it does kind of have a higher awareness emotionally"
"I'm a 26-year-old man trying to find my way in the world. I have a certain way of talking and explaining myself, but when you read it in print, it comes across very differently. But I don't want to start watching everything I say, and try and fit in. Without saying anything for the shock factor, I just want to keep spilling things out of my mouth, off the top of my head"
"We took about two months of salsa lessons and it was fun, but I felt like a prick at the start. Of course, it was in a dance studio with mirrors everywhere to remind me of how much I looked like a prick not just felt like one. But anything that’s not in the realm of your existence, helps you as an actor"
"I'm not seduced by it all. I swear to God. I'm easily pleased, yeah. Don't get me wrong, I'll indulge in it. 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"
"It all goes back to [Joel Schumacher]. I wouldn't have done Phone Booth without him. I wouldn't be doing Hart's War. I probably wouldn't have done American Outlaws if he hadn't picked me out of obscurity. I've worked, but not at the level or people I'm working with now if he hadn't taken a chance on an Irish kid playing a Texan"
"I still think I’m Peter Pan. I still don’t want to grow up, so I’d never say anything is for good, but I have a newfound appreciation for life. Not that I was suicidal, but I never had that much of a will to live a long life, although there were plenty of reasons: my two sisters, my brother, my mother, my friends, my work. I had just decided not to look at them. But now, through the birth and existence of my son, I want to be alive for a long time and watch him grow up, be his best friend and his father, and hang around with him. He is the greatest priority in my life"
"I do have the ability to explore life and to be over the moon at the smallest thing - a few pints and a craic in the pub and I'm in heaven. But I have a melancholy side to me as well. Acting allows me to feel things, it kind of buys me human experience. And I don't mean this as acting as higher cause, because it's not, but it does kind of have a higher awareness emotionally"
"It's being in the right fuckin' place at the right time, a lot of that. And a lot of good breaks, man, whatever way the stars align. I work really hard, I work as hard as I possibly can and I never take any short cuts, never take short cuts. Just a lot of good luck and a lot of people who've taken a chance on me. Overnight success can merely be pin pointed to some person in your career, whether it's early like me, or late like that woman that was in Titanic. One person making that decision to put you in a role that finally gives you a bit of exposure that would allow people to coin you, and say something, like being an overnight success? that one person for me was Joel Schumacher"
"I haven’t had a drink in six months, so I’m certainly not going out drinking ‘till five in the morning now. It just caught up with me. I got my arse handed to me on a plate. It was a long time coming"
"I work my arse off. I'm never late, ask anyone. I'm only 27. I don't feel like a big star. I feel neither the pressure nor the grandeur of my situation, you know. 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"
"Ah, I know what the important things are in life. I know that, just because I pretend to be someone else for two hours doesn't make me a better person than the next man. So, I know those things. Simple things"
"I love Ireland, its where my life is, its where my best friend is, I love the country and I love the people very much, and I really don't need another pair of slippers or a toothbrush anywhere else in the world right now. LA doesn't attract me at all. I'll go there for a week and fuckin' have a laugh and bang whoever I can, and I'll indulge myself a little bit, and play around and get the fuck outta there and get on a plane to Ireland. I'll live in Ireland and work wherever I need to go, I'll travel the world, but when I'm finished traveling I'll go home. And it's a great feeling to go home and walk back to me cottage. My heart's fine out in the middle of Dublin, there on the streets"
"I miss the people, the pubs, the canal, fish and chips - curry sauce on the side - cheese and nachos with jalapeno peppers in the UGC [theaters] in Tallaght. And I miss the seasons. I miss the grayness, the leaves on the ground. It could be a little bit more overcast in L.A. I find too much sun depressing."
"I took some time off after Miami Vice, for the first time in six or seven years. I got to step back and have a look at what I’ve been through, at the life that I’ve created and where I want to go. It was a metaphorical deep breath. I needed it"
"Maybe finding love is an impossibility. I’ve been lucky enough in my life to have been in love a few times. I’ve felt how wonderful it is and how hard it can be to be in love"