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It’s always nice to be challenged.

Cillian Murphy

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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Action Cleaning Experience Open Slate Yourself
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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Generation Learning Myself School
The medium is secondary to the stories.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Media Method Story
I’ve never done a film for the money.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Money Movie Myself
I’m terrible. I’m the wrong person to talk to, I really don’t know a thing.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Myself Person Talk Terrible Wrong
I’ve always felt kind of safe on stage, protected. I’ve talked to other performers about this and they feel the same things, particularly in the live arena. I never get nervous going on stage to do a play. Doing film or television I’ll have more butterflies.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Kind Myself Nervous Performance Protection Safety
You’re an actor who’s Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn’t be limited by your extraction.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Extraction Limitation Yourself
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
CILLIAN MURPHY

Character Information Necessary Need Play Yourself
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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Leadership Money Movie Name Pronunciation Scripture Yourself
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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Care Choice People Photograph Studio Yourself
I always think it’s a sign of a truly gifted director when they can move seamlessly between genres.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Director Gift Myself Thinking True
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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Celebrity Myself People Treat Writing
I like watching film, I go to the cinema, but a lot of times I go to see kids’ films.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Children Cinema Myself Time
I don’t know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Myself Plane
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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Artist Flag Important Kind Pieces Thinking Try
For me, drama is conflict.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Conflict Drama Myself

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