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.
CILLIAN MURPHYFor me, drama is conflict.
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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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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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 suppose I’ve always been attracted to this sort of outsider in general – in literature, in music, politics, whatever – and to the person that is able to be relentlessly themselves. I don’t think that I have that quality, that strength of mind.
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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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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’m not interested in a good man’s life. I’m interested in contradiction.
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I started off in theater; I did exclusively theater for four or five years. In the last few years, television has come along but I can still make film. I feel very privileged that I can move between them.
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My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.
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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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For me it’s always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.
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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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I loved The Fall; I was kind of obsessed with that show.
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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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I’ve had the pleasure and the great luck to work with some incredible actors over the years and you have to observe and learn and take something from it and try and become better yourself.
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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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For me, drama is conflict.
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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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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 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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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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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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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 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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I’m terrible. I’m the wrong person to talk to, I really don’t know a thing.
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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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