For me it’s always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.
CILLIAN MURPHYI’m not interested in a good man’s life. I’m interested in contradiction.
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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I’m not interested in a good man’s life. I’m interested in contradiction.
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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 like being at home with my music and my books. I’ve done all the partying, I’ve done enough partying for four or five people as a young fella. But now I like the quiet life.
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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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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’m terrible. I’m the wrong person to talk to, I really don’t know a thing.
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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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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’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’ve never done a film for the money.
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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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You’re an actor who’s Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn’t be limited by your extraction.
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My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.
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I like watching film, I go to the cinema, but a lot of times I go to see kids’ films.
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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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