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" My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community. "
Colin Farrell
Sense
Place
History
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" 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. "
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" But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present. "
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" I'm in no hurry to get anywhere. I don't have any plans. I don't have a map. If you did in this business, you'd destroy yourself. "
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" 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. "
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" It's not that I'm stupid. I just don't think sometimes. "
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" I get excited about room-service menus! I really do. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death - and everything else is open to discussion. "
Colin Farrell
Life
Everything
Death
" 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. "
Colin Farrell
Family
Yourself
Society
" 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. "
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Family
Son
Home
" I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate - it's not a new philosophy I'm sharing - more than hardship, hardship tends to unify. "
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Wealth
New
Philosophy
" 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. "
Colin Farrell
Pain
Know
Human
" 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. "
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Care
My Life
Myself
" Magic is at the core of myths. "
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Core
Magic
Myths
" I was never an A student, but I was really well behaved until I was 13 or so. "
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Never
Well
" 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. "
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Woman
Self
Kindness
" 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. "
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Day
Laugh
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" Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me. "
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Irish
Who
Take
" The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that. "
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" I like to go for a little drive up the California coast. "
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Little
Like
" 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. "
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Value
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" I'm not painting myself as a down-home, modest guy. "
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Painting
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Guy
" 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. "
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Character
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Yourself
" 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. "
Colin Farrell
Baby
Love
Time
" But we're born as children and we look at the world with open eyes... And we don't judge and we don't betray. We're not jealous. We're not envious. We're not even weary, which is a danger also as kids. They have to learn a certain amount of awareness. "
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Judge
Jealous
Eyes
" I'm just a true Irish boy at heart. "
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Boy
Just
Irish
" 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. "
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Time
Lie
Interesting
" 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. "
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