I think it’s necessary to keep moving forward. I’ve always said that nostalgia is death, really for anyone creative.
CILLIAN MURPHYTwo 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.
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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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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I’m not interested in a good man’s life. I’m interested in contradiction.
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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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The medium is secondary to the stories.
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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.
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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 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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It’s always nice to be challenged.
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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’ve never done a film for the money.
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I think every director has a different methodology.
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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 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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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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