The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.
CILLIAN MURPHYI’ve had the pleasure and the great luck to work with some incredible actors over the years and you have to observe and learn and take something from it and try and become better yourself.
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You take the job very seriously and between action and cut, that’s where your focus should be. And then there’s a lot of levity in between and a lot of good fun.
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I don’t know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
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I’m interested in pressure, I’m interested in duress. All the great works of art, or film or literature, in my opinion, have elements of those in them.
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I suppose I’ve always been attracted to this sort of outsider in general – in literature, in music, politics, whatever – and to the person that is able to be relentlessly themselves. I don’t think that I have that quality, that strength of mind.
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I’d probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing it.
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I’ve never done a film for the money.
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And once you’re unafraid with death, I think your capacity for violence is immediately increased. Once you’re unafraid of death, you are a very, very dangerous adversary.
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My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.
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You need to be as clean of a slate as you can be, as an actor. You have to try to be open to every experience.
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For me it’s always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.
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I think if you play characters, it’s very important not to ever tag them with any sort of disorder, or diagnose them, or whatever. You have to normalize the behavior to get inside the character.
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That’s what acting is about, Funny wigs and voices, that’s what we do.
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My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.
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I really feel actors should try and do as much diverse work as possible to try and keep it interesting.
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I’m terrible. I’m the wrong person to talk to, I really don’t know a thing.
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Two weeks ago we couldn’t pronounce your name, but you were in the lead in a film that made millions, so we’re sending you all these scripts.
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I don’t think they’d ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I’d love to play Chuck Baker
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For me, drama is conflict.
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All I’ve tried to do as an actor is follow the good writing. That’s been my main drive. It’s not always possible, so when you do come upon it, like when I came upon this, you realize pretty quickly this is something you need to be involved with.
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I try not to think retrospectively. It’s important, as an artist, to look forward, always. I do try to take work that involves some challenge. If you approach a piece of work and you’re going, “Yeah, yeah, I can do that,” then that’s kind of a red flag.
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If you behave like a celebrity, then people will treat you like a celebrity, and if you don’t, they won’t. There’s not much to write about me in the tabloids.
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I’m pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately.
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Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.
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I come from a long line of teachers. Not only did I not go into the family business; I had an aborted law career and I played in bands. ‘Disco Pigs’ was my first professional acting experience.
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The medium is secondary to the stories.
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From a very young age I had an ambition to be a musician, and to do that professionally. That’s what I pursued until I was about 20, playing in bands that were taken pretty seriously at that stage.
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