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You’re an actor who’s Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn’t be limited by your extraction.

Cillian Murphy

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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Darkness Love Movie Myself Romance Story Stranger Watch
I don’t know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Myself Plane
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 MURPHY

Care Choice People Photograph Studio Yourself
I don’t think they’d ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I’d love to play Chuck Baker
CILLIAN MURPHY

Love Movie Myself Thinking
It’s obvious that if you’re going to play a character you need to amass information about that person and about their environment or their era that they’re in and use as little or as much as necessary
CILLIAN MURPHY

Character Information Necessary Need Play Yourself
It’s always nice to be challenged.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Challenge Myself
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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Character Myself Normal Play Thinking
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

Age Ambition Music Professional Serious Young Yourself
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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Leadership Money Movie Name Pronunciation Scripture Yourself
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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Better Greatness Happiness Luck Observation Work Yourself
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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Break Fall In Love Myself Need Thinking
I think every director has a different methodology.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Different Director Method
The medium is secondary to the stories.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Media Method Story
Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Feeling Myself Start
For me it’s always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Medium Myself Story
For me, drama is conflict.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Conflict Drama Myself

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