I’ve never done a film for the money.
CILLIAN MURPHYEvery Irish person of my generation and earlier, we were raised Catholic and we’d have to learn it in school, we’d to learn the catechism by rote.
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
-
-
I always think it’s a sign of a truly gifted director when they can move seamlessly between genres.
CILLIAN MURPHY -
I don’t think they’d ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I’d love to play Chuck Baker
CILLIAN MURPHY -
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.
CILLIAN MURPHY -
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.
CILLIAN MURPHY -
That’s what acting is about, Funny wigs and voices, that’s what we do.
CILLIAN MURPHY -
Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.
CILLIAN MURPHY -
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.
CILLIAN MURPHY -
I think you fall out of love with theater while you’re doing your eighth show of your eighteenth week and your body is saying, “Please make this end.”
CILLIAN MURPHY -
For me it’s always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.
CILLIAN MURPHY -
The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.
CILLIAN MURPHY -
It’s always nice to be challenged.
CILLIAN MURPHY -
I’m not interested in a good man’s life. I’m interested in contradiction.
CILLIAN MURPHY -
There’s a lot of comedy in Intermission but it’s got this depth. It’s not comedy for comedy’s sake – it’s informed by something else. I like stuff like that
CILLIAN MURPHY -
I loved The Fall; I was kind of obsessed with that show.
CILLIAN MURPHY -
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 MURPHY






