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My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.

Cillian Murphy

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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Audience Different Himself Intelligence Thinking
The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Best Fight Role Yourself
I think every director has a different methodology.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Different Director Method
You’re an actor who’s Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn’t be limited by your extraction.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Extraction Limitation Yourself
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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Action Cleaning Experience Open Slate Yourself
I don’t know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Myself Plane
I’m not interested in a good man’s life. I’m interested in contradiction.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Goodness Interest Life Man Myself
I loved The Fall; I was kind of obsessed with that show.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Fall Love Myself Obsession
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
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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Action Focus Fun Goodness Job Serious 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
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
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
The medium is secondary to the stories.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Media Method Story
That’s what acting is about, Funny wigs and voices, that’s what we do.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Act Myself Voice
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 MURPHY

Afraid Capacity Dangerous Death Violence Yourself

My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.

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