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.
CILLIAN MURPHYFor me it’s always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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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 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 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.”
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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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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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That’s what acting is about, Funny wigs and voices, that’s what we do.
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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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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 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’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 don’t know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
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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 think they’d ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I’d love to play Chuck Baker
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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 wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.
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