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 MURPHYMy wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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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 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.
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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 terrible. I’m the wrong person to talk to, I really don’t know a thing.
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That’s what acting is about, Funny wigs and voices, that’s what we do.
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For me, drama is conflict.
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I like the little bit of distance that London affords me and I like living in a world capital. I like having the culture at my fingertips.
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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 it’s necessary to keep moving forward. I’ve always said that nostalgia is death, really for anyone creative.
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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’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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The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.
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You 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.
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I’m not interested in a good man’s life. I’m interested in contradiction.
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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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