Colin Farrell Quotes
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
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I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.
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We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?
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I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.
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For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the reader.
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I need to talk about Chinese culture. We have deep, strong philosophy and culture. I want to share some information, tell the worldwide audience.
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Throughout my career, I have discovered and rediscovered a simple truth.It is this: the ability to concentrate single-mindedly on your most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the key to great success, achievement, respect, status and happiness in life.
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I've been a storyteller all my life. When I was in high school, I used to amuse myself by driving through the woods at night and see how long it would be before I scared the pants off my friends - and if I could do it before I scared myself.
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I don't really have a social life.
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The natural world around us shows the way to relief. All of life is maintained by the sun, by the air, by water, by the earth and its resources. And to whom was the sun given? To everyone. If there is any one thing that people do have in common, it is the gift of sunlight. But as the early Christians said, "If the sun were not hung so high, someone would have claimed it long ago."
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Seven years sober. I'm really grateful. It's really lovely to be present in my life.
