#w

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#beyond #delights #going #grasp #known

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. ↗

— Colin Farrell

#better #better person #else #hours #i

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#become #certain #disinterested #renunciation #write

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. ↗

— Colin Farrell

#being #big #boat #car #character

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! ↗

— Colin Farrell

#asked #bits #care #could #excited

Pain seems to be easier, or melancholy seems to be easier to portray in a character. I don't know if that's because I'm a human being or because I'm an Irishman or both. ↗

— Colin Farrell

#being #both #character #easier #human

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. ↗

— Colin Farrell

#hardship #i #material #material wealth #mean

I think I'm still trying to find my feet as an actor. And I know it ain't brain surgery, but it confuses me and it comes between me and my sleep a lot. ↗

— Colin Farrell

#between #brain #brain surgery #comes #confuses

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. ↗

— Colin Farrell

#battered #buzz #day #earning #end

Sometime they don't let you know that they know that they don't know everything, but the core of the medical approach is that you try to identify pathologies, which are subsystems within the human body or the larger system that are having undesirable consequences. ↗

— Guy Burgess

#body #consequences #core #everything #having