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.
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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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
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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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The medium is secondary to the stories.
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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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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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Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.
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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 don’t think they’d ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I’d love to play Chuck Baker
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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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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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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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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 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’ve never done a film for the money.
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I’m pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately.
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