It’s always nice to be challenged.
CILLIAN MURPHYI’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.
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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I don’t know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
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I think audiences are a lot more intelligent than what we give them credit for and understand that an actor is playing a role and that doesn’t mean he can’t play different types of roles.
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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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It was very much about performances, the whole ensemble thing was just great – everybody working together. Sometimes it didn’t feel like a film set. It wasn’t technically driven, it was very, very enjoyable.
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For me, drama is conflict.
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I like the little bit of distance that London affords me and I like living in a world capital. I like having the culture at my fingertips.
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I loved The Fall; I was kind of obsessed with that show.
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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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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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I think every director has a different methodology.
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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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For me it’s always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.
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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’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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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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