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.
CILLIAN MURPHYI’ve never done a film for the money.
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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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
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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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You take the job very seriously and between action and cut, that’s where your focus should be. And then there’s a lot of levity in between and a lot of good fun.
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I’ve always felt kind of safe on stage, protected. I’ve talked to other performers about this and they feel the same things, particularly in the live arena. I never get nervous going on stage to do a play. Doing film or television I’ll have more butterflies.
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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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And once you’re unafraid with death, I think your capacity for violence is immediately increased. Once you’re unafraid of death, you are a very, very dangerous adversary.
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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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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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My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.
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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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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’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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I’m terrible. I’m the wrong person to talk to, I really don’t know a thing.
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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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