Every 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.
CILLIAN MURPHYI’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.
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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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 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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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 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 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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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 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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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 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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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 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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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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My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.
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