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.
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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All I’ve tried to do as an actor is follow the good writing. That’s been my main drive. It’s not always possible, so when you do come upon it, like when I came upon this, you realize pretty quickly this is something you need to be involved with.
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I’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.
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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 medium is secondary to the stories.
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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.
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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 not interested in a good man’s life. I’m interested in contradiction.
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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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My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.
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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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I’m terrible. I’m the wrong person to talk to, I really don’t know a thing.
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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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You’re an actor who’s Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn’t be limited by your extraction.
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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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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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