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.
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’m not interested in a good man’s life. I’m interested in contradiction.
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It’s obvious that if you’re going to play a character you need to amass information about that person and about their environment or their era that they’re in and use as little or as much as necessary
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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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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’ve never done a film for the money.
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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’m terrible. I’m the wrong person to talk to, I really don’t know a thing.
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I like watching film, I go to the cinema, but a lot of times I go to see kids’ films.
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My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.
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The medium is secondary to the stories.
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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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I like the little bit of distance that London affords me and I like living in a world capital. I like having the culture at my fingertips.
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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’d probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing it.
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I don’t have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.
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