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.
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 try not to think retrospectively. It’s important, as an artist, to look forward, always. I do try to take work that involves some challenge. If you approach a piece of work and you’re going, “Yeah, yeah, I can do that,” then that’s kind of a red flag.
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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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That’s what acting is about, Funny wigs and voices, that’s what we do.
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I’m not interested in a good man’s life. I’m interested in contradiction.
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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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I’ve never done a film for the money.
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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.
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It’s always nice to be challenged.
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My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.
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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 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.
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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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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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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 it’s necessary to keep moving forward. I’ve always said that nostalgia is death, really for anyone creative.
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The medium is secondary to the stories.
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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’m pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately.
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For me, drama is conflict.
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I personally think if something’s not a challenge there’s no point doing it because you’re not gonna learn much.
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I like the little bit of distance that London affords me and I like living in a world capital. I like having the culture at my fingertips.
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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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You’re an actor who’s Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn’t be limited by your extraction.
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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’d probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing it.
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