I think it’s necessary to keep moving forward. I’ve always said that nostalgia is death, really for anyone creative.
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’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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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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All I’ve tried to do as an actor is follow the good writing. That’s been my main drive. It’s not always possible, so when you do come upon it, like when I came upon this, you realize pretty quickly this is something you need to be involved with.
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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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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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It was very much about performances, the whole ensemble thing was just great – everybody working together. Sometimes it didn’t feel like a film set. It wasn’t technically driven, it was very, very enjoyable.
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I personally think if something’s not a challenge there’s no point doing it because you’re not gonna learn much.
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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 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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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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I always think it’s a sign of a truly gifted director when they can move seamlessly between genres.
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I don’t know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
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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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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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My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.
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