Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.
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 think you fall out of love with theater while you’re doing your eighth show of your eighteenth week and your body is saying, “Please make this end.”
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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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My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.
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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 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.
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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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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.
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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 loved The Fall; I was kind of obsessed with that show.
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I’ve never done a film for the money.
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I think every director has a different methodology.
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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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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 like watching film, I go to the cinema, but a lot of times I go to see kids’ films.
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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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