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 MURPHYI always think it’s a sign of a truly gifted director when they can move seamlessly between genres.
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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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 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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All I’ve tried to do as an actor is follow the good writing. That’s been my main drive. It’s not always possible, so when you do come upon it, like when I came upon this, you realize pretty quickly this is something you need to be involved with.
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I loved The Fall; I was kind of obsessed with that show.
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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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I like watching film, I go to the cinema, but a lot of times I go to see kids’ films.
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My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.
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I really feel actors should try and do as much diverse work as possible to try and keep it interesting.
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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 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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Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.
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I think any actor that says ‘I never watch my films’ is a liar because you have to watch it at least once and also you’re going to watch it when you’re doing your ADR.
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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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You’re an actor who’s Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn’t be limited by your extraction.
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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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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 like being at home with my music and my books. I’ve done all the partying, I’ve done enough partying for four or five people as a young fella. But now I like the quiet life.
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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 know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
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It’s obvious that if you’re going to play a character you need to amass information about that person and about their environment or their era that they’re in and use as little or as much as necessary
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That’s what acting is about, Funny wigs and voices, that’s what we do.
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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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I’ve never done a film for the money.
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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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It’s always nice to be challenged.
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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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