I don’t have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.
CILLIAN MURPHYI loved The Fall; I was kind of obsessed with that show.
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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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 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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Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.
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The medium is secondary to the stories.
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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.
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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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For me it’s always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.
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I’ve never done a film for the money.
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All I’ve tried to do as an actor is follow the good writing. That’s been my main drive. It’s not always possible, so when you do come upon it, like when I came upon this, you realize pretty quickly this is something you need to be involved with.
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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.
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I like the little bit of distance that London affords me and I like living in a world capital. I like having the culture at my fingertips.
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I’d probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing 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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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’m pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately.
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I come from a long line of teachers. Not only did I not go into the family business; I had an aborted law career and I played in bands. ‘Disco Pigs’ was my first professional acting experience.
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I loved The Fall; I was kind of obsessed with that show.
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I think it’s necessary to keep moving forward. I’ve always said that nostalgia is death, really for anyone creative.
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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’m not interested in a good man’s life. I’m interested in contradiction.
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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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I’m terrible. I’m the wrong person to talk to, I really don’t know a thing.
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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 don’t know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
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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’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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