You’re an actor who’s Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn’t be limited by your extraction.
CILLIAN MURPHYI 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.
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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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 like watching film, I go to the cinema, but a lot of times I go to see kids’ films.
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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.
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At the moment I’m doing this space movie, so I’m obsessed with physics and space travel. I know three months down the line it’s gone. Then I’ll be able to superficially say stuff about space.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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That’s what acting is about, Funny wigs and voices, that’s what we do.
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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 if you play characters, it’s very important not to ever tag them with any sort of disorder, or diagnose them, or whatever. You have to normalize the behavior to get inside the character.
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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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I really feel actors should try and do as much diverse work as possible to try and keep it interesting.
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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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Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.
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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 loved The Fall; I was kind of obsessed with that show.
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I’ve always felt kind of safe on stage, protected. I’ve talked to other performers about this and they feel the same things, particularly in the live arena. I never get nervous going on stage to do a play. Doing film or television I’ll have more butterflies.
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I started off in theater; I did exclusively theater for four or five years. In the last few years, television has come along but I can still make film. I feel very privileged that I can move between them.
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I’ve never done a film for the money.
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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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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’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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