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.
CILLIAN MURPHYThe best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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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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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 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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I think you fall out of love with theater while you’re doing your eighth show of your eighteenth week and your body is saying, “Please make this end.”
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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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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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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’m terrible. I’m the wrong person to talk to, I really don’t know a thing.
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I think it’s necessary to keep moving forward. I’ve always said that nostalgia is death, really for anyone creative.
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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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I like watching film, I go to the cinema, but a lot of times I go to see kids’ films.
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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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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 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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I don’t know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
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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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The medium is secondary to the stories.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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I always think it’s a sign of a truly gifted director when they can move seamlessly between genres.
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I’m not interested in a good man’s life. I’m interested in contradiction.
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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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