I don’t know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
CILLIAN MURPHYI 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 loved The Fall; I was kind of obsessed with that show.
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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 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 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 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 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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That’s what acting is about, Funny wigs and voices, that’s what we do.
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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 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’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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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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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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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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