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Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.

Cillian Murphy

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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Age Ambition Music Professional Serious Young Yourself
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 think every director has a different methodology.
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Different Director Method
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
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
It’s always nice to be challenged.
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Challenge Myself
My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.
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Challenge Myself Repeat
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
CILLIAN MURPHY

Comedy Deep Myself
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
I don’t have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Live Myself Passion
I’m terrible. I’m the wrong person to talk to, I really don’t know a thing.
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Myself Person Talk Terrible Wrong
For me, drama is conflict.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Conflict Drama Myself
I don’t care if people perceive me as always selling out because I’m doing a studio picture. For me, the whole thing is you should be diverse in your choices; that’s the beauty of being an actor, you should be able to do that.
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Care Choice People Photograph Studio Yourself
Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Feeling Myself Start
The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Best Fight Role Yourself
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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Break Fall In Love Myself Need Thinking

Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.

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