That’s what acting is about, Funny wigs and voices, that’s what we do.
CILLIAN MURPHYHaving started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.
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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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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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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’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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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’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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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 don’t have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.
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From a very young age I had an ambition to be a musician, and to do that professionally. That’s what I pursued until I was about 20, playing in bands that were taken pretty seriously at that stage.
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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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I really feel actors should try and do as much diverse work as possible to try and keep it interesting.
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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 pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately.
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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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