Latest Colin Farrell Quotes from Interviews

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• I certainly do believe in monogamy. I don't believe that it's for everyone. I don't believe that marriage is for everyone. So much of life is begging to be chosen how it wants to be lived. Much more than most of us realize.

  Colin Farrell

  Believe, Realizing, Monogamy

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• I'm enjoying [my career]. If anything I'm aware that the pressure of the first, I suppose, six or seven years I was in America - I mean that energy of having such a rapid and ascending celebrity - it's not there anymore. It's the end of that chapter and now I'm just enjoying the work probably more than I ever have and yet I'm simultaneously less attached to it I think, which is kind of a strange state of grace to be in.

  Colin Farrell

  Mean, Thinking, America

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• I didn't work with any of the beasts [ "Fantastic Beasts"], I didn't have much green screen, but I loved working on it. I'm excited to see it myself.

  Colin Farrell

  Green, Excited, Beast

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• On "[Total] Recall" also [sets were extraordinary], but this was next-level. They built two or three blocks of midtown Manhattan in 1926 and it was inhabited with 400 extras and 24 Model Ts and a train system and all that kind of nonsense. It was madness. You would walk into shops and they would have the goods from that period, it was just huge.

  Colin Farrell

  Block, Two, Next

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• I remember some of the sets on "Alexander" were extraordinary and it would just take your breath away.

  Colin Farrell

  Remember, Extraordinary, Breaths

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• I never once regretted doing "True Detective".

  Colin Farrell

  Detectives

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• The level of backlash [for the True Detective] was kind of fascinating and not fully shocking because I know what the world of the internet is and how it's a platform to project their greatest anger and frustrations. But it's also a place where people can wax lyrical and be effusive in their glowing fondness of something.

  Colin Farrell

  Frustration, Glowing, People

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• You move on. It's work. Yeah, I'm privileged and paid handsomely and it's not exactly being in a coal mine, but you still work your ass off and you work as hard as you possibly can and you hope that people connect to it and enjoy it.

  Colin Farrell

  Moving, People, Coal

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• I was disappointed, but I kind of knew it was going to be an uphill struggle because of how strong the first season [of "True Detective"] was.

  Colin Farrell

  Strong, Struggle, Detectives

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• I called Nic Pizzolatto and he said, "No, no. You're in it the whole way through." That was fun to shoot [in The Lobster]. I had a few scenes in that show that were some of my favorite all-time scenes to be in.

  Colin Farrell

  Fun, Lobster, Way

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• I'll wait to see what the film [The Lobster] is, but it's set in a contemporary world, in America, there are hospitals and diners, parks, things that we will recognize and experienced ourselves but yet there's this similar kind of uneasiness through all the interactions and all the things that take place. It was unnerving reading the script. I kind of felt nauseous after reading it.

  Colin Farrell

  Reading, America, Waiting

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• [Yorgos Lanthimos] is really a master I feel, I really do.

  Colin Farrell

  Masters, Feels

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• There are so many interpretations that this film [The Lobster] could be approached from. But Yorgos [Lanthimos] is so specifically minded, he's so clinical in his direction of the film.

  Colin Farrell

  Lobster, Film, Interpretation

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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

  Colin Farrell

  Scripts, Extraordinary

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• You dream to eat whatever you can and get away with it and then when you're told you have to eat, it loses its fun straight away.

  Colin Farrell

  Dream, Fun, Get Away

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• I had a list of about 35 restaurants, 25 of which were fast-food joints all around Los Angeles and I didn't get a quarter through the list. It just became me thinking about going to these places and wanting to enjoy the food and food just not being enjoyable anymore.

  Colin Farrell

  Thinking, Joints, Lists

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• Yorgos Lanthimos said, "What about if he's a bit soft?" And I said, "Yeah, I think you're right." He just comfort-eats a little bit too much. He's just asleep in his own life and has let himself go. And the mustache, I don't know if it was him or I suggested it. But I remember my sister was watching me eat and she was like, "God, does he have to be fat?" And in retrospect I couldn't think of David being any other way because it affected the way I moved. It really did. It slowed me down in a way that I felt was conducive to kind of tapping into the spirit of the character.

  Colin Farrell

  Character, Thinking, Mustache

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• Myself and Yorgos Lanthimos, we spoke a little bit and I was at a certain body weight that I was closer to making a statement or defining the character physically by losing weight. There was no justification for him to be emaciated, but I thought, say I was 165, I thought what if I went down to 155 and have him rail-thin? And Yorgos was like, "Well, if he's very thin I think maybe it will speak to some kind of psychological trouble that we want to stay away from," and I was like, "F - -, you're right."

  Colin Farrell

  Character, Thinking, Body Weight

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• Around the world there are certain marital systems, certain physical systems, political systems, social systems, and all those things are kind of turned on their head but represented in various ways within "The Lobster."

  Colin Farrell

  Political, Lobster, World

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• As much as "The Lobster" feels like a world we recognize but not the world we live in, it's all drawn in an allegorical way from all the systems that exist.

  Colin Farrell

  Lobster, World, Way

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• I've done far too many things that I felt were going to be genius that weren't and I've done some things that I didn't think were going to be much that really connected with people. So expectations are left at the door. But hope exists all the time.

  Colin Farrell

  Thinking, Doors, People

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• I think people enjoy "The Lobster" because people respond to original things, but I think they only respond to original things if they connect to some truths within us.

  Colin Farrell

  Thinking, People, Lobster

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• I have hope. I have no expectations.

  Colin Farrell

  Expectations, Having Hope

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• I'm not optimistic at all, nor am I pessimistic.

  Colin Farrell

  Optimistic, Pessimistic

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• That's the process of making the film and it isn't until the world puts their eyes to it that you find out if it's creating any kind of connection at all. But every single film at some stage of the film I think, "I wonder what this is going to be?"

  Colin Farrell

  Eye, Thinking, Creating

  Source: www.businessinsider.com