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.
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.
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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I suppose I’ve always been attracted to this sort of outsider in general – in literature, in music, politics, whatever – and to the person that is able to be relentlessly themselves. I don’t think that I have that quality, that strength of mind.
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I don’t know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
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It’s always nice to be challenged.
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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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If you behave like a celebrity, then people will treat you like a celebrity, and if you don’t, they won’t. There’s not much to write about me in the tabloids.
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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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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 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’ve never done a film for the money.
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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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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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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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I’m not interested in a good man’s life. I’m interested in contradiction.
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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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