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.
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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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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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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My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.
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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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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 know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
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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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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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You’re an actor who’s Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn’t be limited by your extraction.
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I don’t care if people perceive me as always selling out because I’m doing a studio picture. For me, the whole thing is you should be diverse in your choices; that’s the beauty of being an actor, you should be able to do that.
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I’m pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately.
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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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I’ve never done a film for the money.
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It’s always nice to be challenged.
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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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