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.
CILLIAN MURPHYI don’t have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.
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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You’re an actor who’s Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn’t be limited by your extraction.
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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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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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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’m not interested in a good man’s life. I’m interested in contradiction.
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For me, drama is conflict.
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It was very much about performances, the whole ensemble thing was just great – everybody working together. Sometimes it didn’t feel like a film set. It wasn’t technically driven, it was very, very enjoyable.
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I don’t know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
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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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That’s what acting is about, Funny wigs and voices, that’s what we do.
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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 medium is secondary to the stories.
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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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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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