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
CILLIAN MURPHYI always think it’s a sign of a truly gifted director when they can move seamlessly between genres.
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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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 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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I don’t think they’d ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I’d love to play Chuck Baker
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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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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.
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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 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.
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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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My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.
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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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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 don’t know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
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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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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’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’m terrible. I’m the wrong person to talk to, I really don’t know a thing.
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I’m not interested in a good man’s life. I’m interested in contradiction.
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I’ve had the pleasure and the great luck to work with some incredible actors over the years and you have to observe and learn and take something from it and try and become better yourself.
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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’d probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing it.
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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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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 like watching film, I go to the cinema, but a lot of times I go to see kids’ films.
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My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.
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For me it’s always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.
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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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