And once you’re unafraid with death, I think your capacity for violence is immediately increased. Once you’re unafraid of death, you are a very, very dangerous adversary.
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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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 really feel actors should try and do as much diverse work as possible to try and keep it interesting.
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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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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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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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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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That’s what acting is about, Funny wigs and voices, that’s what we do.
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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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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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I think if you play characters, it’s very important not to ever tag them with any sort of disorder, or diagnose them, or whatever. You have to normalize the behavior to get inside the character.
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The medium is secondary to the stories.
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I always think it’s a sign of a truly gifted director when they can move seamlessly between genres.
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I’m not interested in a good man’s life. I’m interested in contradiction.
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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’ve never done a film for the money.
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