Colin Farrell Biography

On himself:

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

“I don’t say or do things for shock tactics. I mean, even I read things I’ve said and think, what a fucking animal.”

“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 just work as hard as I can, and play as hard as I can.”

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

"I couldn’t care less about who sees my bits. My friends asked me 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 have the ability to explore life and 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 don’t go to the gym or practise yoga. And the closest thing I have to a nutritionist is the Carlsberg Beer Company. I just have the appetite of a pigeon.”

“I really didn’t listen a day at school. I was just so uninterested. I had no grand master plan. I just never studied and didn’t do homework, and cheated in exams every chance I got.”

“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. “

On acting:

“I know it ain’t brain surgery, but sometimes acting confuses me, and it comes between me and my sleep a lot.”

“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.”