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.
CILLIAN MURPHYYou 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.
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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The medium is secondary to the stories.
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My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.
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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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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 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.
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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 loved The Fall; I was kind of obsessed with that show.
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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 don’t know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
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That’s what acting is about, Funny wigs and voices, that’s what we do.
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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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Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.
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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.
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I think every director has a different methodology.
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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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It’s always nice to be challenged.
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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.
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I’ve had the pleasure and the great luck to work with some incredible actors over the years and you have to observe and learn and take something from it and try and become better yourself.
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You take the job very seriously and between action and cut, that’s where your focus should be. And then there’s a lot of levity in between and a lot of good fun.
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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 will always love film, the romance of film, sitting in the darkened room with strangers and watching a story for two hours – that will always remain and never be eroded by television.
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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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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 really feel actors should try and do as much diverse work as possible to try and keep it interesting.
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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.
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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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