My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.
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.”
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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 think audiences are a lot more intelligent than what we give them credit for and understand that an actor is playing a role and that doesn’t mean he can’t play different types of roles.
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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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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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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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I like watching film, I go to the cinema, but a lot of times I go to see kids’ films.
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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 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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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’ve never done a film for the money.
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That’s what acting is about, Funny wigs and voices, that’s what we do.
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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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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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You need to be as clean of a slate as you can be, as an actor. You have to try to be open to every experience.
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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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