Colin Farrell Quotes

It's not like I was trying to be sexy but I had to get fit because I had to be able to do stunts. Also I wanted that, if Bond took his clothes off, he looked like a man who did what he did, which was kill people for a living. I thought the only way to do that was to work out and get fit and buff and get physically into shape.

My thighs were huge; they were like rock! Growing up, I was really athletic, and I had a very athletic body.

It's a nice visual. I had just done Blade and I put on more weight for Blade and I thought I might as well use it so I kept it and added a little more. I wanted him to be a big bear.

I was relatively buff (before 'Avatar'), because I was working in a tanktop half the time on stage, anyway, but I just went kind of into hyperdrive after that and really worked to beat that old body into shape, to get that carcass where...I didn't want to be looking at it and see anything hanging where it shouldn't be hanging.

When you are just muscle, you end up being gaunt in the face, and that makes you look older by 5 or 10 years. I don't think of getting older as looking better or worse; it's just different. You change, and that's OK.

Portraying Alex Summers, I want to look as athletic as his character is in the comics.

I'm an athletic actor. I'm known for my action; I'm a guy who does my own stunts on screen.

I started working out, doing a formal workout right around 1980. That's when I really decided I needed to get in shape and it may have been because you just start to see a decrease - a change in your body.

I'm not one of those actors who gets physically fit for a role and then loses it all again.

I could never focus on my upper body as a skater, so I'm enjoying having symmetrical upper and lower body muscle.

I see the most change in my body through exercise. They say diet determines your weight, and exercise determines your shape - I find that to be a pretty true statement. When I'm doing a lot of boxing, my hamstrings are really strong and my biceps. When I'm doing a lot of Pilates, I find that my core is really lean and my inner thighs.

In period films, it always helps to have someone built to carry a sword, and Channing Tatum clearly hasn't missed a workout for the past two years, so he fits the bill in that regard.

I feel being fit gives you a lot of boost to your confidence and your overall look. It transforms you entirely - not just outside but inside, too.

I can get to a point where I get pretty chiselled.

A lot of people think the body is just about genetics, but the right approach can change its shape.

Actually, the challenge I’ve always had is being too thin, so I love that now I have a booty, and obviously I love showing my cleavage.

Not that i had a big arse but even that was toned.

I've met women who have way better bodies in their 40s because they've been working on them for all these years.

They assume she was once gorgeously beautiful. Because now she looks so—bad.

He must have had a magnificent build before his stomach went in for a career of its own.

I'm probably in better shape now than I was when I was in my 20s.

In fact, my face has shrunk in the meantime, but it won't be particularly noticeable because it's covered up with hair. So I hope I'm not alarmed if I ever do sit through the five movies.

The more sex I have, the more defined my arms and stomach get.

The body I had at 21, God gave me. The body I have at 31, is one I worked for.

When I went from girl body to woman body and all of a sudden I had tits and hips and a little tummy and natural fat in places, I freaked out.