It’s always nice to be challenged.
CILLIAN MURPHYI’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 think audiences are a lot more intelligent than what we give them credit for and understand that an actor is playing a role and that doesn’t mean he can’t play different types of roles.
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I’m terrible. I’m the wrong person to talk to, I really don’t know a thing.
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I don’t know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
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For me, drama is conflict.
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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 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 like watching film, I go to the cinema, but a lot of times I go to see kids’ films.
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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 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.
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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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I’ve never done a film for the money.
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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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From a very young age I had an ambition to be a musician, and to do that professionally. That’s what I pursued until I was about 20, playing in bands that were taken pretty seriously at that stage.
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My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.
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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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