I like watching film, I go to the cinema, but a lot of times I go to see kids’ films.
CILLIAN MURPHYMy wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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Every Irish person of my generation and earlier, we were raised Catholic and we’d have to learn it in school, we’d to learn the catechism by rote.
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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 only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.
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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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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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Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.
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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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For me it’s always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.
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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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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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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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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’m terrible. I’m the wrong person to talk to, I really don’t know a thing.
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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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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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