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 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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My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.
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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 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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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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You’re an actor who’s Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn’t be limited by your extraction.
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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’m interested in pressure, I’m interested in duress. All the great works of art, or film or literature, in my opinion, have elements of those in them.
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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 like watching film, I go to the cinema, but a lot of times I go to see kids’ films.
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For me, drama is conflict.
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And once you’re unafraid with death, I think your capacity for violence is immediately increased. Once you’re unafraid of death, you are a very, very dangerous adversary.
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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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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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I’m not interested in a good man’s life. I’m interested in contradiction.
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I’ve never done a film for the money.
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