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 MURPHYI’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.
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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I’m not interested in a good man’s life. I’m interested in contradiction.
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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’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 like watching film, I go to the cinema, but a lot of times I go to see kids’ films.
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It’s always nice to be challenged.
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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 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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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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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 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 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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I don’t know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
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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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My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.
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