Quotes by Colin Farrell

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

“Its not that Im stupid. I just dont think sometimes.”

“I couldnt care less about who sees my bits... My friends asked how I could do scenes like that and not get excited, but it wasnt like that. My bits looked the size of a cashew nut!”

“Ill be in Los Angeles for two weeks and Ill have a laugh, get battered and have a buzz, but at the end of the day, Ill go home. Its just me earning a few more stories to tell everyone at home and all.”

“Im just a true Irish boy at heart.”

“Im in no hurry to get anywhere. I dont have any plans. I dont have a map. If you did in this business, youd destroy yourself.”

“I dont 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.”

“When we were kind of forced (by real life sniper murders in the Washington area that were too close to the films plot) to pull the picture in October (from its Nov. 15 date), he wasnt nearly as big a star as he is today after Daredevil and The Recruit. Hes become this hot guy.”

“They were asking her to embody the spirit of America, so you dont put that on somebodys shoulders lightly. Having watched her, I think she can do anything. She has soulfulness that goes way beyond her years.”

“On shooting American Outlaws: I kept saying Bang bang and they kept having to cut.”

I really look forward to that insane hour that we spend together. I really do.

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

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.

Ive realized as well after five years of being on the road that if Im going to four or five months of my life to something even if Im overpaid, its 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 its a big movie.

Vampires have always held a very seductive kind of lore and have always been some variety of attractive, whether its attractiveness thats 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.

Im a big old romantic.

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