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I’m terrible. I’m the wrong person to talk to, I really don’t know a thing.

Cillian Murphy

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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Myself Privilege Start Time
I’d probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing it.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Law Misery Myself Stay Wealth
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 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
For me it’s always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Medium Myself Story
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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Care Choice People Photograph Studio Yourself
I’ve never done a film for the money.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Money Movie Myself
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’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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Kind Myself Nervous Performance Protection Safety
My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Challenge Myself Repeat
The medium is secondary to the stories.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Media Method Story
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
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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Enjoyment Greatness Performance Technical Togetherness
I’m terrible. I’m the wrong person to talk to, I really don’t know a thing.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Myself Person Talk Terrible Wrong
It’s always nice to be challenged.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Challenge Myself
I don’t know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Myself Plane

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