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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.

Cillian Murphy

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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Better Greatness Happiness Luck Observation Work Yourself
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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Drive Goodness Main Quick Realization Writing Yourself
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
CILLIAN MURPHY

Character Information Necessary Need Play Yourself
I think every director has a different methodology.
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Different Director Method
The medium is secondary to the stories.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Media Method Story
I think it’s necessary to keep moving forward. I’ve always said that nostalgia is death, really for anyone creative.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Creative Death Forward Move Myself Necessary Nostalgia Thinking
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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Attraction Literature Mindset Music Myself Person Politics Quality Strength
I always think it’s a sign of a truly gifted director when they can move seamlessly between genres.
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Director Gift Myself Thinking True
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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Lying Thinking 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
I don’t have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Live Myself Passion
There’s a lot of comedy in Intermission but it’s got this depth. It’s not comedy for comedy’s sake – it’s informed by something else. I like stuff like that
CILLIAN MURPHY

Comedy Deep Myself
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 MURPHY

Leadership Money Movie Name Pronunciation Scripture Yourself
Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Feeling Myself Start
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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Action Cleaning Experience Open Slate Yourself
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

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