Top 50 Colin Farrell Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Seven years sober. I’m really grateful. It’s really lovely to be present in my life.”

— Colin Farrell

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

— Colin Farrell

3. “My Mum taught me great manners. And she always told me that you can be or do whatever in life, as long as you don’t hurt anyone and you’re happy. My Mum’s great; I adore her.”

— Colin Farrell

4. “I love my kids. I’m crazy about them.”

— Colin Farrell

5. “I’m just a true Irish boy at heart.”

— Colin Farrell

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

— Colin Farrell

7. “I’ve never seen a moon in the sky that, if it didn’t take my breath away, at least misplaced it for a moment.”

— Colin Farrell

8. “I’m a big old romantic.”

— Colin Farrell

9. “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.”

— Colin Farrell

10. “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

11. “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

12. “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.”

— Colin Farrell

13. “It’s so technical. It’s nothing personal. You’re not fighting really, you’re missing each other by a half of foot at least, ideally more and you get a few knocks and bruises. But with the kissing, you do kiss someone. Its lips on lips.”

— Colin Farrell

14. “I think, as human beings, we at times overvalue the intellect and we undermine the body. I don’t mean a body externally and the shape of a body. I mean the intelligence of a body, the memories that a body can store, how a body feels emotion, and how a body processes emotion.”

— Colin Farrell

15. “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.”

— Colin Farrell

16. “Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death – and everything else is open to discussion.”

— Colin Farrell

17. “I’m just a true Irish boy at heart. I’m just myself, I stick by my guns and I treat people the way I think they should be treated, regardless of their status. And I just have a laugh.”

— Colin Farrell

18. “I’ve started films like Miami Vice where I’m in really good shape and I look back on that film and see the moustache is bigger as I’ve got a larger face.”

— Colin Farrell

19. “Yeah, I know my way around some guns, which is weird because I have no time for them. I don’t like them at all but I can take apart guns and put them back together and stuff, so I didn’t have to go to the range. I don’t think I will ever to go ‘the range’ again! I’ve done enough of that.”

— Colin Farrell

20. “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.”

— Colin Farrell

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

— Colin Farrell

22. “I love working with horses. People say you shouldn’t work with animals and children; that’s wrong. You must only work with children, because you only work eight hours a day and I love working with animals. Animals have an honesty that human beings reach to find in their lives at the best of times.”

— Colin Farrell

23. “I don’t 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.”

— Colin Farrell

24. “I do enjoy reading some science fiction.”

— Colin Farrell

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25. “I think I’m still trying to find my feet as an actor. And I know it ain’t brain surgery, but it confuses me and it comes between me and my sleep a lot.”

— Colin Farrell

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

— Colin Farrell

27. “The idea of implanting memories where by the implantee couldn’t tell the difference between a real experience and a fantasy experience was really cool. And his ideas of technology – do we control technology or does technology begin to control us? His work hasn’t aged a day it seems.”

— Colin Farrell

28. “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.”

— Colin Farrell

29. “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.”

— Colin Farrell

30. “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.”

— Colin Farrell

31. “Girl trouble, for me, is when you fall in love.”

— Colin Farrell

32. “I think people are propelled towards violence, and what propels them is much more interesting than the actual act of violence itself.”

— Colin Farrell

33. “It doesn’t matter if it’s a drama or a comedy, the need to get the emotion and the character arc across is way harder in something like this so was more of a preparation.”

— Colin Farrell

34. “Magic is at the core of myths.”

— Colin Farrell

35. “I’m not going to experience the reality of hardship that sometimes my characters live in. I’m very cautious about that.”

— Colin Farrell

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

— Colin Farrell

37. “I’m not painting myself as a down-home, modest guy.”

— Colin Farrell

38. “I like to go for a little drive up the California coast.”

— Colin Farrell

39. “I think there were six or eight weeks between ‘Total Recall’ and ‘Seven Psychopaths.’ I was at home in Los Angeles for ‘Seven Psychopaths,’ so it was the first time I had worked from my house here so it was great to be around the kids.”

— Colin Farrell

40. “My Dublin wasn’t the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.”

— Colin Farrell

41. “Every week a tsunami rips through poor towns and villages all over the world. It claims 25,000 lives a day, 175,000 a week. It sweeps children from the arms of their mothers, robs hundreds of millions of any hope for the future. That tsunami is hunger. Help us end it now.”

— Colin Farrell

42. “I get excited about room-service menus! I really do.”

— Colin Farrell

43. “You have the upmost amount of energy because you’re not just having a cocktail at the end of the night. You’re actually not drinking alcohol and you’re keeping your body really clean and it’s an amazing feeling to be getting out all the toxins.”

— Colin Farrell

44. “I am more comfortable doing a drama.”

— Colin Farrell

45. “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.”

— Colin Farrell

46. “It can be a bit annoying if another actor is trying to talk to the director and the wife is sitting on his lap.”

— Colin Farrell

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

— Colin Farrell

48. “I did loads of auditions and I didn’t get called back. I still get giddy at all the people I get to work with, and I’m still enjoying the work and enjoying life too much that I don’t feel like I’ve done that much.”

— Colin Farrell

49. “If you need to get in physical shape for a film and you have to maintain that for six months.”

— Colin Farrell

50. “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.”

— Colin Farrell