Colin Farrell Quotes

Every new invention is like a baby. You think it may cure cancer or become the president, but in the end, you're happy it just stays out of jail.

Everyone asks, Will he make it, will she make it? You never make it.

Life sometimes doesn't work out exactly as we plan or hope for.

Things are going to go wrong, and I think we are false to life if we don’t portray it. But there is also the hope that some lucky clown is going to come along and stumble into the gold mine. And I think you are also entitled to hold out that hope.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.

I'm always taken aback by things that are successful that I think are just crap, and then I'm completely surprised when things I do end up being successful because you walk into things and you never know... It's just really remarkable.

Life doesn't always give us what we are expecting.

I've done a lot of shows that didn't do well. You have to go in with a 50-50 take on it. If it goes well, fantastic. Hope for the best and plan for the worst.

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.

I've had my share of struggle. I believe, never take success to your head or failure to your heart.

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.

Somehow I wasn't completely crucified by the critics. I don't know how or why, I probably should've been.

My faith helped me stay grounded in defeat and victory, to not get too excited about the successes and too low about the failures.

I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big.

I do feel pressure. I have always been able to surprise people because they didn't know to expect anything from me. And now people are starting to have expectations.

I've never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I'm pleasantly surprised when it does.

Any time you think you have the game conquered, the game will turn around and punch you right in the nose.

I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold... doesn't bear thinking about, but I suppose we'd have made it work somehow.

You have to expect failure; not everything is going to work.

You just keep moving forward and doing what you do and hope that it resonates with people. And if it doesn't, you just keep moving on until you find a project that does.

The thing you think is going to be huge ends up not being huge at all, and the most minute thing you do is talked about for the rest of your life, so I try not to have any expectations at all. I think that helps, if you're just focusing on the project at hand.

My father would make record after record, and he'd be so surprised at what would sell and what wouldn't.

People who succeed in my job are people who are not afraid to look silly.