• Name: Colin Farrell
  
• Birth Name: Colin James Farrell
  
• Height: 5' 10
  
• Sex: M
  
• Nationality: Irish
  
• Birth Date: March 31, 1976
  
• Birth Place: Castleknock, Dublin, Ireland
  
• Profession: actor
  
• Education: Gaiety Drama School in Dublin (dropped out)
  
• Husband/Wife: Amelia Warner (actress; born on June 4, 1982; married on July 17, 2001; filed for divorced in November 2001)
  
• Relationship: Kim Bordenave (model), Britney Spears (actress, musician; born on December 2, 1981)
  
• Father: Eamon Farrell (Irish football player)
  
• Mother: Rita Farrell
  
• Uncle: Jim Farrell (Irish football player)
  
• Son: born on September 12, 2003; mother: Kim Bordenave
  
• Claim to fame: as Roland Bozz in Tigerland (2000)
  

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• 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."

• 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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