I’ve never done a film for the money.
CILLIAN MURPHYYou’re an actor who’s Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn’t be limited by your extraction.
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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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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It’s always nice to be challenged.
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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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For me it’s always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.
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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 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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You’re an actor who’s Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn’t be limited by your extraction.
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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.
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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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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’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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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.
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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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The medium is secondary to the stories.
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I loved The Fall; I was kind of obsessed with that show.
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