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.
CILLIAN MURPHYI’d probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing it.
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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For me, drama is conflict.
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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.
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I loved The Fall; I was kind of obsessed with that show.
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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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My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.
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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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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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If you behave like a celebrity, then people will treat you like a celebrity, and if you don’t, they won’t. There’s not much to write about me in the tabloids.
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I’m pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately.
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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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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 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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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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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.
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