Colin Farrell Quotes
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.
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There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
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One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.
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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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I like to emphasize my eyes because if I do it well enough, then they look very blue.
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The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.
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I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.
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All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.
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Society is so divided in its perception of public school people. Most people who went to public school behave in the right way, but every now and then there will be someone who comes along and ruins it.
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Twitter is an astounding platform for information, but it's a total blank slate - which means it's an astounding platform for disinformation, too.
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At the end of the day, the government, local government all bow to public pressure.
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The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.
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I don't believe in the afterlife.
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I don't think tennis is a glamour game, not at all.
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Beating cancer is personal battle. It was one of the toughest opponents I have faced so far, and I think I did reasonably well. Touch wood.
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On Monday I come in and get in a full body workout, and then I come back in on Wednesday and do a quick six, which consists of bench press, biceps and triceps curls, pull downs, something for the back and the neck. And then you come back and hit it again on Friday with a 16-machine workout.
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I would like to go down as the greatest receiver in this game. I'm not doing all this hard work for nothing.
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I don't think villains think they are villains.
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I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole body of myth and see where the characters fit in and what they ought to be doing-all those archetypes are there to play with.
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We live in a democratic country, and in a democracy freedom of speech is for the people and also for the leaders.
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We're talking to New Line. They've got a couple projects they're interested in me doing and I'm having meetings at MGM. There's a lot of available projects.
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I just do what Clint Eastwood does: Keep moving forward. You can't look back or think about that kind of stuff too much. You just keep making movies; hopefully you make some good ones.
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Magic is at the core of myths.