Colin Farrell Quotes

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

Colin Farrell

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• Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Yourself
  • Changing
  • Analysis

• Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.

  

  Mae West
  • Men
  • Home
  • Waiting

• If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• There's always going to be silly stuff out there in the media that you can't worry too much about, and I don't. We just keep on trucking, and I like the way my... I think there should be 'professional is professional, and personal is personal,' and that's just how I'm going to keep it.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Worry
  • Professional
  • Media

• I couldn't be more proud to introduce Anne-Marie Duff, a phenomenal actress who is bursting on the world stage, to Broadway audiences as Lady Macbeth.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • World
  • Proud
  • Broadway

• We didn't gel with Poison and the Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi was the best of the pop metal bands, but we never fit in with the hair metal stuff. We were never as hip as the Chili Peppers. We were in the middle.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Best
  • Hair
  • Never

• First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • You
  • Drink
  • New Years

• The laptop computer is a workhorse. The tablet is just a display.

  

  Barry Lam
  • Just
  • Computer
  • Laptop

• Whenever I organize or participate in public protest I get really worried that it will just suck, be really small, embarrassing, and the media will laugh at me. Oftentimes, it is really small and most of the time the media laughs at us.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • Time
  • Small
  • Media

• I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Think
  • Been
  • University

• If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • God
  • Eat
  • Sugar

• Sometimes I read a really good script, and I just know that it's not a good fit.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Good
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• To be a superstar is incredible pressure. And also in our country, I'm going to speak about this, America. We have a way of kind of making it hard on our superstars. I don't sense it when I go to Europe or I go to Japan.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • Country
  • America
  • Speak

• I want to hang out with my friends. I want to hang out with my family - well, I sometimes want to hang out with my family!

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Want

• I have always believed that technology should do the hard work - discovery, organization, communication - so users can do what makes them happiest: living and loving, not messing with annoying computers! That means making our products work together seamlessly.

  

  Larry Page
  • Work
  • Together
  • Technology

• The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Work
  • Long
  • Bed

• The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.

  

  Dan Savage
  • War
  • Bible
  • Slavery

• I tell my wife she is only the third most important thing after my country and my parents, in that order.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Important
  • Country
  • She

• I'm kind of an obsessive-compulsive person, like, neat obsessive.

  

  Liev Schreiber

• The guards didn't carry weapons. Malcolm X had insisted that the guards not carry firearms that day [February 21, 1965].

  

  Manning Marable
  • Weapons
  • February
  • Firearms

• I'm a bubbling brew of emotions, but mostly, I'm an optimistic person.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Person
  • Emotions
  • Optimistic

• I remember when cable happened and everyone said broadcast was dead, and then satellite happened and everyone said cable was dead, and then DVDs happened and everyone said everything was over. Nothing was over. I'm very optimistic about the future.

  

  Anne Sweeney
  • Remember
  • Future
  • Optimistic

• Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Truth

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

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Optimistic
  • Pessimistic