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.
CILLIAN MURPHYFrom 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.
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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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’m not interested in a good man’s life. I’m interested in contradiction.
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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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For me, drama is conflict.
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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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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 don’t know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
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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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It’s always nice to be challenged.
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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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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’d probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing it.
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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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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 don’t think they’d ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I’d love to play Chuck Baker
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