Colin Farrell is getting real about getting older.

During the Wednesday, June 24, broadcast of The View, cohost Joy Behar asked the Irish actor how it felt recently turning 50 on May 31.

“I love getting older,” the father of two said. “In your teens, your 20s, your 30s, you’re constantly trying to look for who you are, for who you are in relation to the world around you, if your life has meaning, if you’re worthy of having a life at all.”

However, he pointed out, “As you get older, that stuff kind of fades away. And I just think, ‘Yeah, life is so short.’ If you are lucky to live to 80 or 90, it’s just a blip.”

Explaining that he feels “we don’t talk about death enough,” Farrell said that everyone will “inevitably” be around it or think about it, “whether you talk about it or not.”

“Not me,” Behar, 83, declared, to which Farrell replied: “That grim reaper is coming for you as well, sister!”

“But not today,” Behar insisted.

While Farrell was being unapologetically blunt about the realities of death, he admitted that he doesn’t have plans to go anywhere anytime soon, either.

“If I’m in an airplane that hits turbulence, I [think]…don’t want to die,” he said. “I want life to slow down. I love getting older, but I’d love to tip the brakes a little bit. It all seems to be going too fast.”

His advice? “Enjoy the moment, enjoy the day, try to have a bit of gratitude, nature is always around. Human beings are making a mess of things. Nature is honest and always there.”

“I love being 50,” he concluded.