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.
CILLIAN MURPHYYou 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.
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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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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The medium is secondary to the stories.
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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 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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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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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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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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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 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 always think it’s a sign of a truly gifted director when they can move seamlessly between genres.
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I’ve never done a film for the money.
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I loved The Fall; I was kind of obsessed with that show.
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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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My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.
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That’s what acting is about, Funny wigs and voices, that’s what we do.
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