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Cillian Murphy

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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Break Fall In Love Myself Need Thinking
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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Lying Thinking Yourself
The medium is secondary to the stories.
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Media Method Story
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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Myself Privilege Start Time
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.
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Action Focus Fun Goodness Job Serious Yourself
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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Act Business Career Experience Family Law Play Professional Teaching
For me, drama is conflict.
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Conflict Drama Myself
For me it’s always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.
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Medium Myself Story
I don’t have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.
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Live Myself Passion
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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Creative Death Forward Move Myself Necessary Nostalgia Thinking
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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Darkness Love Movie Myself Romance Story Stranger Watch
I think if you play characters, it’s very important not to ever tag them with any sort of disorder, or diagnose them, or whatever. You have to normalize the behavior to get inside the character.
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Character Myself Normal Play Thinking
I’m pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately.
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Accent Yourself
That’s what acting is about, Funny wigs and voices, that’s what we do.
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Act Myself Voice
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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Better Greatness Happiness Luck Observation Work Yourself
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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Book Home Life Music Myself Party People Quiet
The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.
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Best Fight Role Yourself
I try not to think retrospectively. It’s important, as an artist, to look forward, always. I do try to take work that involves some challenge. If you approach a piece of work and you’re going, “Yeah, yeah, I can do that,” then that’s kind of a red flag.
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Artist Flag Important Kind Pieces Thinking Try
I always think it’s a sign of a truly gifted director when they can move seamlessly between genres.
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Director Gift Myself Thinking True
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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Challenge Learning Personal Point Thinking Yourself
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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Action Cleaning Experience Open Slate Yourself
I like watching film, I go to the cinema, but a lot of times I go to see kids’ films.
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Children Cinema Myself Time
It’s always nice to be challenged.
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Challenge Myself
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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Attraction Literature Mindset Music Myself Person Politics Quality Strength
I really feel actors should try and do as much diverse work as possible to try and keep it interesting.
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Feeling Interest Myself Possible Work
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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Element Greatness Interest Literature Opinion
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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Character Information Necessary Need Play Yourself

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