Quotes from Colin Farrell

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 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.

My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.

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've got plenty of love in my life already in the form of my sons and a few good friends who I value dearly.

I'm just a true Irish boy at heart.

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

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.

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.

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.

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'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.

Magic is at the core of myths.

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.

When I read the script it was extraordinary and to work with Yorgos [Lanthimos] again was amazing.

Allow your head to be quiet. Allow it to be still. Just for an hour and half. Just deal with your body & your breath.

The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.

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

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

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

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.

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.

I do enjoy reading some science fiction.