- Admits he used heroin and thought it was a pretty nice experience. (2004)
- Hated wearing a wig for A HOME AT THE END OF THE WORLD so much, he deems it the lowest point of his career. (September 16, 2004)
- Almost faced the wrath of movie maker Oliver Stone after breaking his ankle and his wrist with three days of ALEXANDER still to film. Farrell fell down a stairway after living it up at a party co-star Val Kilmer threw for the cast and crew in Thailand and passed out. He woke up in agony with broken bones, and Stone admits he came close to ruining the film's ending. (August 31, 2004)
- ALEXANDER director Oliver Stone said Farrell acted like a baby towards his mother when he first met actress Angelina Jolie on the movie set. (August 9, 2004)
- Refuses to start work until he's donned the shamrock-design boxer shorts (said to be his lucky underpants) and has promised to keep up the tradition throughout his career. (August 6, 2004)
- Is a changed man following the birth of his son James and is begging ex-love Kim Bordenave to give him joint custody of the adorable lad. (July 13, 2004)
- A full-frontal scene in his movie A HOME AT THE END OF THE WORLD has been cut because test audiences were purportedly distracted by Farrell's supposedly massive member -- Leading director Michael Mayer worries that Farrell's manhood would overshadow the story by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Cunningham.
- James Bond actor Pierce Brosnan has dismissed Farrell as a suitable new 007. (May 5, 2004)
- Has turned down the chance to date sexy rising star Lindsay Lohan because she was a little too young for him. (March 10, 2004)
- Embarked on a romance with Thai soap star Orravin Ngernyuang, while shooting scenes of his movie ALEXANDER in the actress' native country. (February 27, 2004)
- Has shunned reports the homosexual elements in his new film ALEXANDER will dominate the plot. (January 28, 2004)
- Lashed out at a British photographer the morning after taking Angelina Jolie back to London's Langham Hotel. (December 15, 2003)
- Accidentally stabbed co-star Gary Stretch's stomach during filming a violent scene in ALEXANDER THE GREAT. (December 15, 2003)
- His penchant for excess left movie bosses on his new movie ALEXANDER fuming, after his two week stay at a Moroccan hotel left them with a $64,000 bill. (December 3, 2003)
- His alleged habit of exposing himself during drinking sessions has already offended his ALEXANDER co-star Angelina Jolie -- She fled to a different hotel in a bid to escape his wacky behavior. (October 14, 2003)
- Confessed to taking a regular cocktail of drink and drugs that spiraled him into depression before he achieved fame. (September 30, 2003)
- Farrell is so proud of his baby son's arrival, he's plastered pictures of his offspring all around the set of his new movie, ALEXANDER. (September 25, 2003)
- Farrell and model Kim Bordenave are the parents of a baby boy -- The infant was born Friday at a Los Angeles hospital and weighed 7 pounds, 9 ounces. (September 18, 2003)
- Farrell is heartbroken that he's going to miss the birth of his son next month, because because he'll be shooting the epic ALEXANDER. (August 29, 2003)
- Farrell has recorded a cover of The Clash's classic I Fought The Law for the soundtrack to new movie INTERMISSION. (August 19, 2003)
- Farrell will miss the birth of his first child so he's sending his sister along instead - He has to travel to Morocco to begin filming Oliver Stone movie ALEXANDER over the next couple of weeks. (August 7, 2003)
- Farrell has denied romancing Britney Spears, claiming he only met the singer moments before the January New York premiere of his film THE RECRUIT, when she was drinking in the same bar as he and his friends. (August 5, 2003)
- Farrell was considered the perfect gentleman at Wednesday's unveiling of S.W.A.T., the big-budget remake of the '70s TV show, hitting theaters Aug. 8. (August 2, 2003)
- Farrell is set to star as the new face of fashion house Ralph Lauren and will earn almost $3.2 million for the contract. (July 8, 2003)
- Nominated for Best Villain at MTV Movie Awards for DAREDEVIL (2003)
- Farrell has signed up for a remake of steamy Blake Edwards flick 10, taking the role from Hugh Grant -- The actor is one of the hottest properties in Hollywood at the moment and has beaten previous favorite Grant to the role, played by Dudley Moore in the 1979 original 10. (May 30, 2003)
- Farrell wants to bring British soccer hero Roy of the Rovers to the big screen - The actor says, I wasn't good enough at football in real life, and I still don't know if I'm a good enough actor to pull it off, but it would be great. (May 21, 2003)
- Colin Farrell and Robin Wright Penn have been holed up in their Toronto hotel room following the SARS virus scare. (April 29, 2003)
- Farrell is reportedly ready to branch out into singing, with the help of Russell Crowe - The actor has been seriously considering the career diversion, despite admitting to reporters that he failed to make it into Irish group Boyzone because he was tone deaf. (April 23, 2003)
- Farrell is poised to put his hell-raising talents to test by playing legendary bad boy rocker Ozzy Osbourne - He is the front-runner to portray the Black Sabbath singer in a biographical movie of the bat-biting BRIT. (April 16, 2003)
- Farrell has made it onto a list of the top 100 most powerful people in Hollywood -- Premiere magazine's annual Power List squeezed the actor into its Top 100 at No. 98, which is a serious coup for Farrell. (April 15, 2003)
- Farrell was a busy man at the premiere of his new movie PHONE BOOTH, where he tangled with three mystery women -- The actor, whose girlfriend Kim Bordenave is expecting his baby, was spotted doing a spot of dirty dancing with a girl called Sade before moving on to another lovely. (April 3, 2003)
- Farrell has been enjoying secret meetings with newly- single actress Kate Beckinsale -- The pair met at London's Sanderson Hotel on Friday night and onlookers described their behavior as very intimate. (March 18, 2003)
- Jude Law and Colin Farrell are being lined up to play the lead characters in a lavish new production of BRIDESHEAD REVISTED -- The dream duo have been identified by producer Douglas Rae as the ideal actors to portray hedonistic University pals Sebastian Flyte and Charles Ryder in the new adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel. (March 15, 2003)
- Farrell admits he's sick of what the Irish Republican Army (IRA) has done to his beloved country, and the reputation the Irish have has been tarnished as a result. (February 11, 2003)
- Farrell and Britney Spears were holding hands and smooching at last week's Recruit premiere, but it doesn't mean they're an item - Farrell swears that he and the pop princess aren't a couple, and that he didn't plot their red-carpet arrival to work the crowd into a frenzy, as has been speculated. (February 6, 2003)
- Farrell is already behaving like a diva before achieving the international superstardom he craves - the actor delayed a flight out of Dublin for an hour last Friday because he was too busy sipping Champagne to respond the numerous requests for him to board the flight. (January 3, 2003)
- With his delayed thriller PHONE BOOTH, the Al Pacino-starring THE RECRUIT, the Dublin-set INTERMISSION and cartoon crazy DAREDEVIL still to hit our screens, Farrell's managed to line up not one but two new projects while simultaneously shooting S.W.A.T. with Samuel L. Jackson and L.L. Cool J -- a production in March THE JACKET and an indie film A HOME AT THE END OF THE WORLD. (November 15, 2002)
- Farrell's latest movie, PHONE BOOTH, a thriller about a man periled by a sniper, is itself in peril, given current events in suburban Maryland and Virginia, where a sniper is currently on a killing spree - this may cause the movie's release delayed because releasing PHONE BOOTH at the moment would be considered tasteless. (October 15, 2002)
- Dropped out of the Gaiety Drama School in Dublin and a few months later auditioned for a part in Ballykissangel and was successful.
- Colin and the others of AMERICAN OUTLAWS (2001) had to spend six weeks at a ranch, hanging out with a bunch of Cowboys, learning how to ride horses before they starting shooting the movie. Colin rode a horse named Milagro while learning how to ride, then used the same horse for all of shooting AMERICAN OUTLAWS.
- Farrell has upset America's feminists by insisting he's sick of love and is now just out for a lifetime of casual sex. (October 14, 2002)
Quotes- On his son: "There are things I may have done before my son was born that I won't do anymore. He's given me a will to live I never had before... a will to stay around for a long time because I want to see him grow up."
- On his son: "It's the most gorgeous, gorgeous thing. He's just my friend. He's a little human who can't quite speak and say what he wants yet and it's wonderful. I adore him. For me, fatherhood is the ultimate success."
- "I don't go to the gym or practice yoga. And the closest thing I have to a nutritionist is the Carlsberg Beer Company. I just have the appetite of a pigeon."
- "It's not that I'm stupid. I just don't think sometimes."
- "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."
- "I get pissed and I do silly things and I forget shit and I knock stuff over and I fall in love and I kiss girls and they kiss me back."
- "I'm fairly low-maintenance. Packet of smokes and a few pints and I'm a happy man."
- "Sometimes I get a bit silly when I'm drunk. I'm a very peaceful fellow, but I do have a bad temper."
- "There are a lot of people who make an effort to look as if they're dressing down. I just dress down. I like to take things from film sets. I wear these boots from AMERICAN OUTLAWS, and I nicked this jacket as well. But I'm happy in just T-shirts and stuff that people give me."
- "I miss the people, the pubs, the canal, fish and chips - curry sauce on the side - cheese and nachos with jalapeno peppers in the UGC [theaters] in Tallaght. And I miss the seasons. I miss the grayness, the leaves on the ground. It could be a little bit more overcast in L.A. I find too much sun depressing."
- "I can be found in my apartment dancing naked. I like '80s disco, man."
- "I'm not really a rebel, but I take chances. I have a good time, and I live life the way I want to live it."
- "Every film I do is a cockfest. I think the only person I've ever kissed [onscreen] is Ali Larter. We nearly swallowed each other in AMERICAN OUTLAWS."
- "It's been a mad year. But I've got a great family and great friends. When I finish a job, I jump on a plane and go home."
- "Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me."
- "(Al) Pacino was the scariest for me but he was brilliant. When you grow up on films such as Dog Day Afternoon it's a dream come true to work with someone like Pacino."
- "That (four-month marriage to Amelia Warner) was the result of me being an impulsive guy. I love her and we are not together now but that is not the result of anything. It would be very hard for me to have a relationship with anyone at the moment because I'm all over the shop."
- "Don't brand me a Super Star. Acting is not where my happiness comes from. I won't shed crocodile tears if it's taken away. I've had a good trip."
- "After I go to work you think I'm at home learning my lines or something. Na, you work hard and play hard and you always get six weeks off between jobs and that's great. I have no politics except to enjoy every second of my life as much as possible."
- "American women would be more concerned about what the people think of them. Of course it's generalizing, but by and large they wouldn't be as much fun, they wouldn't be as loud, or as brassy, or as brash as Ireland girls. Just not as much craic. They would curl their toes if you say the C-word. They're just not as laid back, and are more concerned than Irish people about what is going around them."
- "Especially in Los Angeles, people spend a lot of their days and nights looking to see what other people are wearing, how they're behaving and the idea of being as individual isn't something that is necessarily always subscribed to in a place like Hollywood. I don't spend too much time there."
- On the girl that will interest him: "The usual obvious bullshit. Sense of humour, a bit of danger, good fun. A good heart is a really sexy thing."
- "All women have the potential to be sexy and it's nothing to do with the dress someone wears or the make-up they put on their face, it's the aged-old clichéd saying: 'What comes from inside.'"
- "I'm not keeping my feet on the ground for the Irish, I'm keeping them on the ground for myself, for my own soul because I like the feeling of the planet under my feet."
- "I am who I am because of my upbringing, because of my nature and nurturing of my friends and my family who I am very close to."
- "Being Irish in Hollywood has done me none disservice. I can't say I consciously play it but I probably do. But I am fairly Irish you know I mean. I wear it on my sleeve because it comes from the heart. And if I do play it up it's probably to remind me where I'm from, just for myself. And to get a laugh for myself."
- "I'm not nearly that tough. In the end, I'm a mama's boy."
- On childhood: "Fantastic. I had a really great time. But mine was just like anyone else's. I went to school, I hated it. I got into a little bit of trouble. I drank, I kissed girls, I played football and I had a great time."
- On marriage: "I'll try anything once, twice, three times a lady."Yeah, I mean, I would never cancel out anything and I would never say never. You know, it wasn't exactly a horrible experience. I had a great year with her (ex wife Amelia Warner). "
- "Family is the most important aspect in my life. Without the love and support I receive from them, I don't know where I'd be."
- "My grandparents are important to me, as are my brothers and sisters. I am close to my dad, but my mum is my best friend in the world. I am totally a mummy's boy. I'm so close to her I even managed to get her a walk-on role in THE RECRUIT - and I couldn't get her off the set afterwards."
- "Sexual preference? Jesus, no, it means nothing to me. Or race or religion either. One of my mentors is as gay as Christmas, and so's my brother. I've been around gay guys since I was, oh, 16. They're just good pals."
- "I'm not seduced by it (Hollywood) all. I swear to God. I'm easily pleased, yeah. Don't get me wrong, I'll indulge in it. 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."
Awards- MTV Movie Awards: Transatlantic Breakthrough Performer, PHONE BOOTH (2003)
- IFTA Awards: Audience Award - Best Actor in a Film (2003)
- London Critics Circle Film Awards: British Newcomer of the Year, TIGERLAND (2002)
- Shanghai International Film Festival: Golden Goblet - Best Actor, HART'S WAR (2002)
- Boston Society of Film Critics Awards: Best Actor, TIGERLAND (2000)
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