Colin Farrell

I love the grandiosity, how sweepingly entertaining films can be. And I think there's a place for films that pry more into the human condition.

What my first son James did was allow me to care for something in this world when I couldn't care for myself. James saved my life.

I'm not keen on cars and motorbikes. I tried to be a biker, but it wasn't me - I bought a Harley-Davidson and dumped it.

I was never an A student, but I was really well behaved until I was 13 or so.

I love my kids. I'm crazy about them.

I get excited about room-service menus! I really do.

Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death - and everything else is open to discussion.

You're scrutinized all through your life - you're scrutinized by your family, by yourself, by society, and your friends in a certain way, shape, or form.

Anything that's different from your own realm of experience as a human being, whether it's driving a car or a boat, or using guns, anything that separates you from yourself and leads you more towards this character's existence is a big help.

Magic is at the core of myths.

The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.

The first time you hold your baby in your arms, I mean, a sense of strength and love washes over you. It washed over me and I never thought that possible.

I've realized as well after five years of being on the road that if I'm going to four or five months of my life to something even if I'm overpaid, it's four or five months of my life away from home, away from my son, away from family and friends. I better believe in it on some level even if it's a big movie.

I do enjoy reading some science fiction.

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.

If after you read something, you connect with it, you want to do it.

I'm not going to lie, there are more interesting ways to spend your time than answering questions about yourself. But if there were no questions to ask me, I might have a beef with that.

I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate - it's not a new philosophy I'm sharing - more than hardship, hardship tends to unify.

I'm not painting myself as a down-home, modest guy.

My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.