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I 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.

Cillian Murphy

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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Lying Thinking Yourself
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
CILLIAN MURPHY

Character Information Necessary Need Play Yourself
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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Myself Privilege Start Time
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 MURPHY

Body End Fall Love Movie Play Thinking Yourself
You’re an actor who’s Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn’t be limited by your extraction.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Extraction Limitation Yourself
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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Act Business Career Experience Family Law Play Professional Teaching
I really feel actors should try and do as much diverse work as possible to try and keep it interesting.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Feeling Interest Myself Possible Work
Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Feeling Myself Start
I personally think if something’s not a challenge there’s no point doing it because you’re not gonna learn much.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Challenge Learning Personal Point Thinking Yourself
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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Darkness Love Movie Myself Romance Story Stranger Watch
For me, drama is conflict.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Conflict Drama Myself
I’m interested in pressure, I’m interested in duress. All the great works of art, or film or literature, in my opinion, have elements of those in them.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Element Greatness Interest Literature Opinion
I think it’s necessary to keep moving forward. I’ve always said that nostalgia is death, really for anyone creative.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Creative Death Forward Move Myself Necessary Nostalgia Thinking
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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Action Cleaning Experience Open Slate Yourself
I think every director has a different methodology.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Different Director Method
I like watching film, I go to the cinema, but a lot of times I go to see kids’ films.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Children Cinema Myself Time

I 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.

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I 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.

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