Colin Farrell Quotes
I was well aware of that when I heard they were remaking 'Total Recall.' My first reaction was: 'Ewww, really okay?' And the director said you should really look at it, the script is good. I had already done a remake. I had just finished 'Fright Night.' When I heard about that being remade, I had a whole ego thing... remake?. 'That is so uncool! I loved the original, I can't possibly do that.
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All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.
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I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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I think I've always been somebody to break rules.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.
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College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.
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Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
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Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.
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The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.
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I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.
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Our culture is at its best when we protect and encourage the weakest. Every life - at every stage, in every place - has a dignity beyond our imagining.
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One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
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I'm considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I've never been bored in my life.
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A lot of my fans, and a lot of country music fans, they still wear boots.
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I always felt really lucky that I only lost my legs, because it could've been so much worse.
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I was able to do that [showing up of Democratic benefits] when I was the candidate. But I've not seen or presided over that kind of systematic outreach that I think needs to happen.
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I was well aware of that when I heard they were remaking 'Total Recall.' My first reaction was: 'Ewww, really okay?' And the director said you should really look at it, the script is good. I had already done a remake. I had just finished 'Fright Night.' When I heard about that being remade, I had a whole ego thing... remake?. 'That is so uncool! I loved the original, I can't possibly do that.
