For me it’s always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.
CILLIAN MURPHYI 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.
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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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 really feel actors should try and do as much diverse work as possible to try and keep it interesting.
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If you behave like a celebrity, then people will treat you like a celebrity, and if you don’t, they won’t. There’s not much to write about me in the tabloids.
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That’s what acting is about, Funny wigs and voices, that’s what we do.
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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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It’s always nice to be challenged.
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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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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 think it’s necessary to keep moving forward. I’ve always said that nostalgia is death, really for anyone creative.
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I’ve never done a film for the money.
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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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Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.
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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’m terrible. I’m the wrong person to talk to, I really don’t know a thing.
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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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