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 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 always think it’s a sign of a truly gifted director when they can move seamlessly between genres.
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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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I really feel actors should try and do as much diverse work as possible to try and keep it interesting.
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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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My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.
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I’m not interested in a good man’s life. I’m interested in contradiction.
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It was very much about performances, the whole ensemble thing was just great – everybody working together. Sometimes it didn’t feel like a film set. It wasn’t technically driven, it was very, very enjoyable.
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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 think it’s necessary to keep moving forward. I’ve always said that nostalgia is death, really for anyone creative.
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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.
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The medium is secondary to the stories.
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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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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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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 if you play characters, it’s very important not to ever tag them with any sort of disorder, or diagnose them, or whatever. You have to normalize the behavior to get inside the character.
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