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 MURPHYI 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.”
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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There’s a lot of comedy in Intermission but it’s got this depth. It’s not comedy for comedy’s sake – it’s informed by something else. I like stuff like that
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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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If you behave like a celebrity, then people will treat you like a celebrity, and if you don’t, they won’t. There’s not much to write about me in the tabloids.
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I’d probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing it.
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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 don’t think they’d ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I’d love to play Chuck Baker
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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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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 don’t have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.
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I’ve never done a film for the money.
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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 think it’s necessary to keep moving forward. I’ve always said that nostalgia is death, really for anyone creative.
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It’s always nice to be challenged.
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The medium is secondary to the stories.
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Two weeks ago we couldn’t pronounce your name, but you were in the lead in a film that made millions, so we’re sending you all these scripts.
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