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.
CILLIAN MURPHYI personally think if something’s not a challenge there’s no point doing it because you’re not gonna learn much.
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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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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For me, drama is conflict.
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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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I don’t have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.
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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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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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You take the job very seriously and between action and cut, that’s where your focus should be. And then there’s a lot of levity in between and a lot of good fun.
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My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.
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It’s obvious that if you’re going to play a character you need to amass information about that person and about their environment or their era that they’re in and use as little or as much as necessary
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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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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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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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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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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 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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