Quotes from Colin Farrell


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I get excited about room-service menus! I really do.


I was never an A student, but I was really well behaved until I was 13 or so.


I'm just a true Irish boy at heart.


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.


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


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!


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.


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.


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.


I do enjoy reading some science fiction.


I love my kids. I'm crazy about them.


I like to go for a little drive up the California coast.


I'm a big old romantic.


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


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


Magic is at the core of myths.


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.


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.


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.


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.