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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.

Cillian Murphy

I personally think if something’s not a challenge there’s no point doing it because you’re not gonna learn much.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Challenge Learning Personal Point Thinking Yourself
I think for me with theater, I need to take a break and then fall in love with it again. And then go do it again.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Break Fall In Love Myself Need Thinking
I come from a long line of teachers. Not only did I not go into the family business; I had an aborted law career and I played in bands. ‘Disco Pigs’ was my first professional acting experience.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Act Business Career Experience Family Law Play Professional Teaching
At the moment I’m doing this space movie, so I’m obsessed with physics and space travel. I know three months down the line it’s gone. Then I’ll be able to superficially say stuff about space.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Moments Movie Myself Space
My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Challenge Myself Repeat
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
I really feel actors should try and do as much diverse work as possible to try and keep it interesting.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Feeling Interest Myself Possible Work
I think every director has a different methodology.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Different Director Method
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
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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Drive Goodness Main Quick Realization Writing Yourself
I think any actor that says ‘I never watch my films’ is a liar because you have to watch it at least once and also you’re going to watch it when you’re doing your ADR.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Lying Thinking Yourself
I don’t think they’d ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I’d love to play Chuck Baker
CILLIAN MURPHY

Love Movie Myself Thinking
That’s what acting is about, Funny wigs and voices, that’s what we do.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Act Myself Voice
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.”
CILLIAN MURPHY

Body End Fall Love Movie Play Thinking Yourself
I’d probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing it.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Law Misery Myself Stay Wealth
I’m interested in pressure, I’m interested in duress. All the great works of art, or film or literature, in my opinion, have elements of those in them.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Element Greatness Interest Literature Opinion

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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