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 MURPHYAt 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.
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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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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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 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 for me with theater, I need to take a break and then fall in love with it again. And then go do it again.
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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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The medium is secondary to the stories.
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My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.
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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 really feel actors should try and do as much diverse work as possible to try and keep it interesting.
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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 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.
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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 always think it’s a sign of a truly gifted director when they can move seamlessly between genres.
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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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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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