Farrell on whether there's a certain connection from working with another Irish actor:

"With this particular Irishman, yes, absolutely, but I think that had more to do with Brendan than his lineage. Having said that, he’s incredibly Irish and he’s all of the best things about an Irishman. He’s incredibly lyrical in his speech and he’s got a very warm heart, but he’s also very strong-willed as well. But I’m sure there are Irish people that I’ve worked with [that] I wouldn’t have as much of a connection as a couple of Americans I’ve worked with or somebody from Thailand that I worked with. They’re just human beings, we’re different, yet we’re the same in many ways all over the world."

On punching a woman during one particular scene:

"I’ve had plenty of practice, you know, typecast yet again. [laughs] No, we worked it out with the actress who is also a stuntwoman and we just did it. You just have to trust Martin’s words and his intention. I mean Ray gets away with a lot, the majority of people seem to be coming out of the film feeling that Ray is not a bigot and that his intent was never really malicious... I just think that he is someone that is incredibly innocent; it’s bizarre how much he gets away with. There’s a purity and an innocence to him in the way that he expresses himself and the way he talks and views the world, very much like a child that doesn’t have any censorship."

Farrell on the In Bruges premiere in Dublin:

"Oh, it’s great. It’s always great to go home. It will be nice to go home with a piece written by an Irishman, starring Irishmen, and other cultures, of course - French, Belgian, Canadian, and English. But it’s very much at heart, it feels to me like an Irish piece."

Colin Farrell on his character's political views of the Vietnam war:

"He hasn’t a clue of what the f**k he’s talking about most of the time, to be honest with you. It’s just something he heard on a National Geographic program one time and he was like, ‘Ignorance, the Vietnamese died because of your ignorance.’ He probably heard Muhammad Ali make a speech, ‘Why should I go over when the VC has never done a thing to me?’, and kind of impressed him and stuck."