I personally think if something’s not a challenge there’s no point doing it because you’re not gonna learn much.
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.
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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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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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Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.
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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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It’s always nice to be challenged.
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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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My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.
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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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There’s a lot of comedy in Intermission but it’s got this depth. It’s not comedy for comedy’s sake – it’s informed by something else. I like stuff like that
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For me, drama is conflict.
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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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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’m not interested in a good man’s life. I’m interested in contradiction.
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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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I’d probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing it.
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