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.
CILLIAN MURPHYI 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.
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.
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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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I don’t know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
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I loved The Fall; I was kind of obsessed with that show.
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Two weeks ago we couldn’t pronounce your name, but you were in the lead in a film that made millions, so we’re sending you all these scripts.
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From a very young age I had an ambition to be a musician, and to do that professionally. That’s what I pursued until I was about 20, playing in bands that were taken pretty seriously at that stage.
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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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For me it’s always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.
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That’s what acting is about, Funny wigs and voices, that’s what we do.
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The medium is secondary to the stories.
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I don’t think they’d ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I’d love to play Chuck Baker
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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 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 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.
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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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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 think if you play characters, it’s very important not to ever tag them with any sort of disorder, or diagnose them, or whatever. You have to normalize the behavior to get inside the character.
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I’ve never done a film for the money.
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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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I think every director has a different methodology.
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I will always love film, the romance of film, sitting in the darkened room with strangers and watching a story for two hours – that will always remain and never be eroded by television.
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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 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 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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I’m pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately.
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I’m not interested in a good man’s life. I’m interested in contradiction.
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