My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.
CILLIAN MURPHYI don’t think they’d ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I’d love to play Chuck Baker
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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 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 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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I don’t know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
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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’m not interested in a good man’s life. I’m interested in contradiction.
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I think every director has a different methodology.
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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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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’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.
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All I’ve tried to do as an actor is follow the good writing. That’s been my main drive. It’s not always possible, so when you do come upon it, like when I came upon this, you realize pretty quickly this is something you need to be involved with.
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I’ve always felt kind of safe on stage, protected. I’ve talked to other performers about this and they feel the same things, particularly in the live arena. I never get nervous going on stage to do a play. Doing film or television I’ll have more butterflies.
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I’m pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately.
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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’ve never done a film for the money.
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