I’m terrible. I’m the wrong person to talk to, I really don’t know a thing.
CILLIAN MURPHYI think audiences are a lot more intelligent than what we give them credit for and understand that an actor is playing a role and that doesn’t mean he can’t play different types of roles.
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I like the little bit of distance that London affords me and I like living in a world capital. I like having the culture at my fingertips.
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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’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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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 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 loved The Fall; I was kind of obsessed with that show.
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And once you’re unafraid with death, I think your capacity for violence is immediately increased. Once you’re unafraid of death, you are a very, very dangerous adversary.
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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’ve never done a film for the money.
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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.
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That’s what acting is about, Funny wigs and voices, that’s what we do.
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I think audiences are a lot more intelligent than what we give them credit for and understand that an actor is playing a role and that doesn’t mean he can’t play different types of roles.
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I’m not interested in a good man’s life. I’m interested in contradiction.
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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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You’re an actor who’s Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn’t be limited by your extraction.
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