The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.
CILLIAN MURPHYIt’s always nice to be challenged.
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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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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I’ve never done a film for the money.
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I think you fall out of love with theater while you’re doing your eighth show of your eighteenth week and your body is saying, “Please make this end.”
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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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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 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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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 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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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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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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It was very much about performances, the whole ensemble thing was just great – everybody working together. Sometimes it didn’t feel like a film set. It wasn’t technically driven, it was very, very enjoyable.
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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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You’re an actor who’s Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn’t be limited by your extraction.
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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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I’m pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately.
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That’s what acting is about, Funny wigs and voices, that’s what we do.
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I started off in theater; I did exclusively theater for four or five years. In the last few years, television has come along but I can still make film. I feel very privileged that I can move between them.
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I think audiences are a lot more intelligent than what we give them credit for and understand that an actor is playing a role and that doesn’t mean he can’t play different types of roles.
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I always think it’s a sign of a truly gifted director when they can move seamlessly between genres.
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I think it’s necessary to keep moving forward. I’ve always said that nostalgia is death, really for anyone creative.
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The medium is secondary to the stories.
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I think every director has a different methodology.
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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 loved The Fall; I was kind of obsessed with that show.
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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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My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.
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