If this cover doesn’t make you go WOW, wait till you read Colin Farrell’s quotes in the April issue of UK GQ

On looking up his name on Google and the picture of him before he went to rehab:  “I’m ashamed to admit it, but I was bored the other day and I looked up my name.  Who am I kidding?  I do it all the time.  Anyhow, I want to show you this photo.”   What picture was it?  It was Colin Farrell at the 2005 wrap party for Miami Vice.    He had a good couple of chins, his face was almost comically bloated, but what you really notice was his eyes.  “They’re dead,” Farrell points out.  “The night that was taken, literally that night, I got onto a plane and checked into rehab.  I was just broken.”

On not drinking or doing drugs:  “I’d fucking love to be able to drink,” he says, eventually.  “I would love to have a couple of nights fucking howling at the moon.  And not just have a drink, I’d love to get fucked up.  I’d love to be able to pop some fucking OxyContin or some Percocet and know that it’s not going to become a fuckin habit.  Turn on, tune in, drop out, I’d love it.”

How he now blows off steam: “He discovered the 10th Street Russian & Turkish Baths in NYC and started going most days.  A good shvitz gave him something to do in the long evenings and he began to feel the toxins accumulated over years of hard living ooze out of him.

That 2002 video with Playboy model Nicolee Narain: “I should have just left my video camera at home, that’s all.  That was an expensive fucking 14 minutes, I tell you that.  Jesus Christ.”

On living:  “I didn’t want to die, I just didn’t want to live well, now I do.  I want to live for a long time.”

Interview regrets: “After I talk to you I will freak about this whole thing.  Now that I’m without jar…it’s me.  Anything I say, it’s 100 percent me.”

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