Colin Farrell Quotes

I’m enjoying [my career]. If anything I’m aware that the pressure of the first, I suppose, six or seven years I was in America – I mean that energy of having such a rapid and ascending celebrity – it’s not there anymore. It’s the end of that chapter and now I’m just enjoying the work probably more than I ever have and yet I’m simultaneously less attached to it I think, which is kind of a strange state of grace to be in.

Women tend to immediately take responsibility if somebody messes up with both of us saying it’s our fault. Men are quite happy for it to be your fault it seems like.

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.

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.

I got to work with Jared Leto. Jared’s cute. Oh, I’ll tell you. Jared will make you doubt about your sexuality.

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

I’m a big old romantic.

Initially, less appealing to me than the idea of a vampire that is drawn by some misgiving or drawn by some sense of longing that he can’t quite satiate.

Her Majesty’s Secret Service wouldn’t have me on the payroll.

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.

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.

I count ‘Underworld 4’ as my training period for ‘Total Recall.’ I do think it was hard because I didn’t realize how tired I was. It is quite a lot to sustain that kind of physical work over nine months altogether and by the end of it, I definitely felt like I had aged quite a bit in that year.