Irish actor Colin Farrell seems to have turned his life around in recent years after previously battling drink and drug addiction. Although he doesn’t think he’s a completely changed man, he does have a new way of looking at things and says he enjoys his work now, as well as new pastimes such as yoga which he never believed he would have liked before:
”It’s helped to stay away from the cocaine and the whiskey. Life moves in cycles. I’m not going to say there was a particular day or time when things changed, or even that I’m a different man. I enjoy the work more. I enjoy being a dad more. I enjoy doing things I never thought I’d enjoy, like yoga! Everything’s by design, even if you think it’s not. I can’t say I sat down and said, ‘Right, I am going to reinvest’. I know from talking to some friends and different people that it looks as though I’ve tried to redesign my career but it’s not really like that.”
Colin says that the last few years have been a crazy journey for him, and that he used to get caught up in the admiration, as well as the harsh criticisms that people would throw at him. These days he believes he is “living with” himself more, and doesn’t let it all get too crazy:
”I am living with me more now. You can get caught up with everyone patting you on the back, and some people slagging you off. I am not saying I was ignored and that people didn’t answer my phone calls, but it was chaos for seven or eight years.”
