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 MURPHYFor me, drama is conflict.
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 every director has a different methodology.
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I don’t know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
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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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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 think any actor that says ‘I never watch my films’ is a liar because you have to watch it at least once and also you’re going to watch it when you’re doing your ADR.
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I’m pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately.
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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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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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It’s always nice to be challenged.
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I’m not interested in a good man’s life. I’m interested in contradiction.
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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 come from a long line of teachers. Not only did I not go into the family business; I had an aborted law career and I played in bands. ‘Disco Pigs’ was my first professional acting experience.
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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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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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