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For me it’s always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.

Cillian Murphy

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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Act Business Career Experience Family Law Play Professional Teaching
You’re an actor who’s Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn’t be limited by your extraction.
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Extraction Limitation Yourself
For me it’s always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.
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Medium Myself Story
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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Lying Thinking Yourself
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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Break Fall In Love Myself Need Thinking
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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Attraction Literature Mindset Music Myself Person Politics Quality Strength
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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Celebrity Myself People Treat Writing
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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Darkness Love Movie Myself Romance Story Stranger Watch
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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Best Fight Role Yourself
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
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Character Information Necessary Need Play Yourself
For me, drama is conflict.
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Conflict Drama Myself
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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Moments Movie Myself Space
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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Generation Learning Myself School
I don’t know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
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Myself Plane
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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Better Greatness Happiness Luck Observation Work Yourself
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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Body End Fall Love Movie Play Thinking Yourself
My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.
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Herself Live Personal Wife
The medium is secondary to the stories.
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Media Method Story
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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Action Cleaning Experience Open Slate Yourself
I’m not interested in a good man’s life. I’m interested in contradiction.
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Goodness Interest Life Man Myself
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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Element Greatness Interest Literature Opinion
I like watching film, I go to the cinema, but a lot of times I go to see kids’ films.
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Children Cinema Myself Time
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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Book Home Life Music Myself Party People Quiet
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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Myself Privilege Start Time
All I’ve tried to do as an actor is follow the good writing. That’s been my main drive. It’s not always possible, so when you do come upon it, like when I came upon this, you realize pretty quickly this is something you need to be involved with.
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Drive Goodness Main Quick Realization Writing Yourself
I’m terrible. I’m the wrong person to talk to, I really don’t know a thing.
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Myself Person Talk Terrible Wrong
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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Age Ambition Music Professional Serious Young Yourself

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