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 don’t think they’d ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I’d love to play Chuck Baker
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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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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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 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 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 loved The Fall; I was kind of obsessed with that show.
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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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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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My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.
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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 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 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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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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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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