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.
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.
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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I think every director has a different methodology.
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I don’t care if people perceive me as always selling out because I’m doing a studio picture. For me, the whole thing is you should be diverse in your choices; that’s the beauty of being an actor, you should be able to do that.
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For me, drama is conflict.
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The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.
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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 personally think if something’s not a challenge there’s no point doing it because you’re not gonna learn much.
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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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I’d probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing it.
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You’re an actor who’s Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn’t be limited by your extraction.
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Every Irish person of my generation and earlier, we were raised Catholic and we’d have to learn it in school, we’d to learn the catechism by rote.
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I loved The Fall; I was kind of obsessed with that show.
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There’s a lot of comedy in Intermission but it’s got this depth. It’s not comedy for comedy’s sake – it’s informed by something else. I like stuff like that
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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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I like being at home with my music and my books. I’ve done all the partying, I’ve done enough partying for four or five people as a young fella. But now I like the quiet life.
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The medium is secondary to the stories.
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