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Cillian Murphy

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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Attraction Literature Mindset Music Myself Person Politics Quality Strength
I always think it’s a sign of a truly gifted director when they can move seamlessly between genres.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Director Gift Myself Thinking True
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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Celebrity Myself People Treat Writing
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
Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Feeling Myself Start
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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Better Greatness Happiness Luck Observation Work Yourself
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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Generation Learning Myself School
I don’t have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Live Myself Passion
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 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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Character Myself Normal Play Thinking
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 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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Artist Flag Important Kind Pieces Thinking Try
I’d probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing it.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Law Misery Myself Stay Wealth
You take the job very seriously and between action and cut, that’s where your focus should be. And then there’s a lot of levity in between and a lot of good fun.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Action Focus Fun Goodness Job Serious Yourself
I’m pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Accent Yourself

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