You’re an actor who’s Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn’t be limited by your extraction.
CILLIAN MURPHYI’m terrible. I’m the wrong person to talk to, I really don’t know a thing.
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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The medium is secondary to the stories.
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I always think it’s a sign of a truly gifted director when they can move seamlessly between genres.
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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 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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For me, drama is conflict.
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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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It’s always nice to be challenged.
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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 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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I think every director has a different methodology.
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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 personally think if something’s not a challenge there’s no point doing it because you’re not gonna learn much.
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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 don’t know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
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