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 MURPHYI 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.”
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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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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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 don’t know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
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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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I’m pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately.
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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’d probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing it.
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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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I’m not interested in a good man’s life. I’m interested in contradiction.
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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 don’t have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.
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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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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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You’re an actor who’s Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn’t be limited by your extraction.
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