I’d probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing it.
CILLIAN MURPHYI like watching film, I go to the cinema, but a lot of times I go to see kids’ films.
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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I don’t know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
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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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I’ve never done a film for the money.
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For me, drama is conflict.
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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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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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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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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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The medium is secondary to the stories.
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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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I think every director has a different methodology.
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I’m interested in pressure, I’m interested in duress. All the great works of art, or film or literature, in my opinion, have elements of those in them.
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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 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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For me it’s always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.
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