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.”
CILLIAN MURPHYI like being at home with my music and my books. I’ve done all the partying, I’ve done enough partying for four or five people as a young fella. But now I like the quiet life.
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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I’m not interested in a good man’s life. I’m interested in contradiction.
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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 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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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 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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The medium is secondary to the stories.
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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’d probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing 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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It’s always nice to be challenged.
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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 loved The Fall; I was kind of obsessed with that show.
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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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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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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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