Colin Farrell
Colin Farrell
Colin James Farrell is an Irish actor. He first appeared on the BBC's TV drama Ballykissangel in 1998, made his film debut in the Tim Roth-directed drama The War Zone a year later and was discovered by Hollywood when Joel Schumacher cast him in the lead in his war drama Tigerland. He then starred in Schumacher's psychological thriller Phone Boothand the American thrillers S.W.A.T. and The Recruit, establishing his international box-office appeal. During that time, he also appeared in Steven...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth31 May 1976
CityCastleknock, Ireland
CountryIreland
I just recently realized. It's very strange. But doing fight scenes with Kate [Beckinsale], I was little bit more cautious. You can go harder with a guy, which I don't mean as an insult.
I know what the important things are in life. I know that just because I pretend to be someone else for two hours on the silver screen doesn't make me a better person than the next man. So, I mind all those things. Simple things.
Vampires have always held a very seductive kind of lore and have always been some variety of attractive, whether it's attractiveness that's born of just the physical attributes that they have - this kind of ethereal beauty or translucent pallor - or whether it is more to do with the way they carry themselves.
I've never seen a moon in the sky that, if it didn't take my breath away, at least misplaced it for a moment.
On shooting American Outlaws: I kept saying 'Bang bang' and they kept having to cut.
He pretends he's from a tough part of Dublin but he's not.
It's a turning point in history, the birth of a nation, and the death almost of a culture,
They were asking her to embody the spirit of America, so you don't put that on somebody's shoulders lightly. Having watched her, I think she can do anything. She has soulfulness that goes way beyond her years.
The greatest part about the movie is wrapping every day. ... Everyone's working hard. I think we have another four weeks in Miami.
The greatest part about the movie is wrapping every day.
Ah, I know what the important things are in life. I know that, just because I pretend to be someone else for two hours doesn't make me a better person than the next man. So, I know those things. Simple things.
The last three years have been insane, you know, just insane,' he says of his rapid rise to stardom. 'I just stay at the same pace. There's madness in the world around me, sure. There's nothing I can do about that. I just work as hard as I can work and play as hard as I can play.
I couldn't care less about who sees my bits... My friends asked how I could do scenes like that and not get excited, but it wasn't like that. My bits looked the size of a cashew nut!
I'll be in Los Angeles for two weeks and I'll have a laugh, get battered and have a buzz, but at the end of the day, I'll go home. It's just me earning a few more stories to tell everyone at home and all.