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.
CILLIAN MURPHYI personally think if something’s not a challenge there’s no point doing it because you’re not gonna learn much.
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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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.
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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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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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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 like watching film, I go to the cinema, but a lot of times I go to see kids’ films.
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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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For me it’s always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.
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I don’t know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
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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.
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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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The medium is secondary to the stories.
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I don’t have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.
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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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I’m pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately.
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