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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.

Cillian Murphy

My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Herself Live Personal Wife
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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Action Focus Fun Goodness Job Serious Yourself
I really feel actors should try and do as much diverse work as possible to try and keep it interesting.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Feeling Interest Myself Possible Work
I’m not interested in a good man’s life. I’m interested in contradiction.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Goodness Interest Life Man Myself
I don’t know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Myself Plane
I come from a long line of teachers. Not only did I not go into the family business; I had an aborted law career and I played in bands. ‘Disco Pigs’ was my first professional acting experience.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Act Business Career Experience Family Law Play Professional Teaching
I always think it’s a sign of a truly gifted director when they can move seamlessly between genres.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Director Gift Myself Thinking True
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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Darkness Love Movie Myself Romance Story Stranger Watch
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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Age Ambition Music Professional Serious Young Yourself
Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Feeling Myself Start
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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Action Cleaning Experience Open Slate Yourself
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.”
CILLIAN MURPHY

Body End Fall Love Movie Play Thinking Yourself
I’m terrible. I’m the wrong person to talk to, I really don’t know a thing.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Myself Person Talk Terrible Wrong
I like being at home with my music and my books. I’ve done all the partying, I’ve done enough partying for four or five people as a young fella. But now I like the quiet life.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Book Home Life Music Myself Party People Quiet
I’d probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing it.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Law Misery Myself Stay Wealth
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 MURPHY

Care Choice People Photograph Studio Yourself

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