The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.
CILLIAN MURPHYIf 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.
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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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 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 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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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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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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I’m not interested in a good man’s life. I’m interested in contradiction.
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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 really feel actors should try and do as much diverse work as possible to try and keep it interesting.
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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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You’re an actor who’s Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn’t be limited by your extraction.
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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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I’m pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately.
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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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It’s always nice to be challenged.
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You take the job very seriously and between action and cut, that’s where your focus should be. And then there’s a lot of levity in between and a lot of good fun.
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