Top 68 Colin Farrell Quotes
#1. Girl trouble, for me, is when you fall in love.
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#2. Hollywood. It lacks originality. Remake sucks.' But I had to look deeper into it from my own perspective. We are not trying to compete with the original at all and that's what allowed me to pull the trigger without any hesitancy .
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#3. I've started films like Miami Vice where I'm in really good shape and I look back on that film and see the moustache is bigger as I've got a larger face.
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#4. I will say that as I get older and calmer and quieter in my own self, the one quality in a woman that I find more and more attractive is kindness. A sense of adventure and humor is important too, but I truly find kindness and consideration for others to be the most attractive thing in anyone.
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#5. Allow your head to be quiet. Allow it to be still. Just for an hour and half. Just deal with your body & your breath.
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#6. But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.
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#7. 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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#8. I'm not going to experience the reality of hardship that sometimes my characters live in. I'm very cautious about that.
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#9. If after you read something, you connect with it, you want to do it.
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#10. I'm just a true Irish boy at heart. I'm just myself, I stick by my guns and I treat people the way I think they should be treated, regardless of their status. And I just have a laugh.
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#11. I just recently realized. It's very strange. But doing fight scenes with Kate [Beckinsale], I was little bit more cautious. You can go harder with a guy, which I don't mean as an insult.
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#12. It's not that I'm stupid. I just don't think sometimes.
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#13. 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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#14. I think, as human beings, we at times overvalue the intellect and we undermine the body. I don't mean a body externally and the shape of a body. I mean the intelligence of a body, the memories that a body can store, how a body feels emotion, and how a body processes emotion.
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#16. It can be a bit annoying if another actor is trying to talk to the director and the wife is sitting on his lap.
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#17. 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.
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#18. It's so technical. It's nothing personal. You're not fighting really, you're missing each other by a half of foot at least, ideally more and you get a few knocks and bruises. But with the kissing, you do kiss someone. Its lips on lips.
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#19. 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.
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#20. I've never seen a moon in the sky that, if it didn't take my breath away, at least misplaced it for a moment.
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#21. I get excited about room-service menus! I really do.
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#22. 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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#23. My Mum taught me great manners. And she always told me that you can be or do whatever in life, as long as you don't hurt anyone and you're happy. My Mum's great; I adore her.
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#24. I think people are propelled towards violence, and what propels them is much more interesting than the actual act of violence itself.
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#25. 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.
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#26. The original WAS a fun film. [Paul] Verhoeven made a couple of 'Robocops' that were so great, too. I think the level of excitement is great and Arnie [Schwarzenegger] was particularly charismatic with that chopped up English, and the size of the man with his confidence and sense of humor.
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#27. I've got plenty of love in my life already in the form of my sons and a few good friends who I value dearly.
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#28. My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.
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#29. Yeah, I know my way around some guns, which is weird because I have no time for them. I don't like them at all but I can take apart guns and put them back together and stuff, so I didn't have to go to the range. I don't think I will ever to go 'the range' again! I've done enough of that.
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#30. You spend so much time in your head in life. And what yoga does is, it asks you to allow your head to be quiet, to allow it to be still, just for an hour and a half. Just deal with your body and your breath. And it's a great workout. I love it.
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#31. 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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#32. From my experience, the only thing you can do is take what's written on the page and try, through your own curiosity and investigation, to make it your own and honor what the original intent was.
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#33. The idea of implanting memories where by the implantee couldn't tell the difference between a real experience and a fantasy experience was really cool. And his ideas of technology - do we control technology or does technology begin to control us? His work hasn't aged a day it seems.
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#34. I'm not keen on cars and motorbikes. I tried to be a biker, but it wasn't me - I bought a Harley-Davidson and dumped it.
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#35. I take acting very seriously. I put everything I have and know into it.
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#36. The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.
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#37. Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.
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#39. If you do a fifteen hour day on a film, there's a lot of time standing around but at the end of that, you want to go home to your hotel room and have a bite to eat, watch a movie and go to bed.
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#40. I was never an A student, but I was really well behaved until I was 13 or so.
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#41. 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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#42. 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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#43. I don't go to the gym or practice yoga. And the closest thing I have to a nutritionist is the Carlsberg Beer Company. I just have the appetite of a pigeon.
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#45. I really look forward to that insane hour that we spend together. I really do.
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#46. 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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#47. Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death - and everything else is open to discussion.
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#49. If you need to get in physical shape for a film and you have to maintain that for six months.
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#50. Seven years sober. I'm really grateful. It's really lovely to be present in my life.
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#51. I'm not painting myself as a down-home, modest guy.
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#52. You have the upmost amount of energy because you're not just having a cocktail at the end of the night. You're actually not drinking alcohol and you're keeping your body really clean and it's an amazing feeling to be getting out all the toxins.
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#53. 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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#54. I love the grandiosity, how sweepingly entertaining films can be. And I think there's a place for films that pry more into the human condition.
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#55. I personally just want to do as many different things as I can do, whether it's comedy, drama, science fiction, horror, narrator ... You've got a documentary, I've got a voice. Animated films. Big films, small films.
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#56. I like to go for a little drive up the California coast.
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#58. Desperation will allow you to do incredible things in the name of survival,
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#60. 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.
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#61. What my first son James did was allow me to care for something in this world when I couldn't care for myself. James saved my life.
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#62. I got to work with Jared Leto. Jared's cute. Oh, I'll tell you. Jared will make you doubt about your sexuality.
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#63. There was a part of me that felt afraid of people in Hollywood going: '**** Hollywood with their total lack of originality!'.
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#64. Yeah loads of bruises and welts, usually around the hip, arse, thigh region and elbows. Elbows got knocked up big time, but it was so much fun. I hadn't done a meaty action film in seven or eight years, so it was fun to explore that aspect of storytelling again.
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#65. Her Majesty's Secret Service wouldn't have me on the payroll.
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#66. Every week a tsunami rips through poor towns and villages all over the world ... That tsunami is hunger.
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#67. I love working with horses. People say you shouldn't work with animals and children; that's wrong. You must only work with children, because you only work eight hours a day and I love working with animals. Animals have an honesty that human beings reach to find in their lives at the best of times.
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#68. 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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