I’m not interested in a good man’s life. I’m interested in contradiction.
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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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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Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.
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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 don’t think they’d ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I’d love to play Chuck Baker
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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.
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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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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 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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I don’t know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
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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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For me it’s always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.
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I always think it’s a sign of a truly gifted director when they can move seamlessly between genres.
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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 think it’s necessary to keep moving forward. I’ve always said that nostalgia is death, really for anyone creative.
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