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.
CILLIAN MURPHYI 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.
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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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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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 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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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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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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That’s what acting is about, Funny wigs and voices, that’s what we do.
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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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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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It’s always nice to be challenged.
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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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For me it’s always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.
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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 don’t think they’d ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I’d love to play Chuck Baker
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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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