You’re an actor who’s Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn’t be limited by your extraction.
CILLIAN MURPHYI’m pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately.
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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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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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 really feel actors should try and do as much diverse work as possible to try and keep it interesting.
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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 think every director has a different methodology.
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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 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 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 like watching film, I go to the cinema, but a lot of times I go to see kids’ films.
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I like the little bit of distance that London affords me and I like living in a world capital. I like having the culture at my fingertips.
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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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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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The medium is secondary to the stories.
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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 don’t know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
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