I’d probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing it.
CILLIAN MURPHYI’m pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately.
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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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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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’ve never done a film for the money.
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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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The medium is secondary to the stories.
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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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For me, drama is conflict.
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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 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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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 have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.
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That’s what acting is about, Funny wigs and voices, that’s what we do.
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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 don’t think they’d ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I’d love to play Chuck Baker
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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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