I always think it’s a sign of a truly gifted director when they can move seamlessly between genres.
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.
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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 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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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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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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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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I started off in theater; I did exclusively theater for four or five years. In the last few years, television has come along but I can still make film. I feel very privileged that I can move between them.
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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 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’m not interested in a good man’s life. I’m interested in contradiction.
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I come from a long line of teachers. Not only did I not go into the family business; I had an aborted law career and I played in bands. ‘Disco Pigs’ was my first professional acting experience.
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My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.
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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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It’s always nice to be challenged.
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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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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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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 don’t think they’d ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I’d love to play Chuck Baker
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I will always love film, the romance of film, sitting in the darkened room with strangers and watching a story for two hours – that will always remain and never be eroded by television.
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I suppose I’ve always been attracted to this sort of outsider in general – in literature, in music, politics, whatever – and to the person that is able to be relentlessly themselves. I don’t think that I have that quality, that strength of mind.
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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 really feel actors should try and do as much diverse work as possible to try and keep it interesting.
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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 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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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 try not to think retrospectively. It’s important, as an artist, to look forward, always. I do try to take work that involves some challenge. If you approach a piece of work and you’re going, “Yeah, yeah, I can do that,” then that’s kind of a red flag.
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I loved The Fall; I was kind of obsessed with that show.
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