I’ve never done a film for the money.
CILLIAN MURPHYIt’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
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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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.”
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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’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 not interested in a good man’s life. I’m interested in contradiction.
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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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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.
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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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It was very much about performances, the whole ensemble thing was just great – everybody working together. Sometimes it didn’t feel like a film set. It wasn’t technically driven, it was very, very enjoyable.
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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 think every director has a different methodology.
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It’s always nice to be challenged.
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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 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 always think it’s a sign of a truly gifted director when they can move seamlessly between genres.
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At the moment I’m doing this space movie, so I’m obsessed with physics and space travel. I know three months down the line it’s gone. Then I’ll be able to superficially say stuff about space.
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