I don’t know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
CILLIAN MURPHYI don’t have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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I suppose I’ve always been attracted to this sort of outsider in general – in literature, in music, politics, whatever – and to the person that is able to be relentlessly themselves. I don’t think that I have that quality, that strength of mind.
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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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The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.
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The medium is secondary to the stories.
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I like watching film, I go to the cinema, but a lot of times I go to see kids’ films.
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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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I’m not interested in a good man’s life. I’m interested in contradiction.
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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 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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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’m terrible. I’m the wrong person to talk to, I really don’t know a thing.
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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.
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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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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 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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