I personally think if something’s not a challenge there’s no point doing it because you’re not gonna learn much.
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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I’m not interested in a good man’s life. I’m interested in contradiction.
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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 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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Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.
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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 always think it’s a sign of a truly gifted director when they can move seamlessly between genres.
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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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I loved The Fall; I was kind of obsessed with that show.
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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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I don’t know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
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That’s what acting is about, Funny wigs and voices, that’s what we do.
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The medium is secondary to the stories.
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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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My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.
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My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.
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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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For me, drama is conflict.
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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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And once you’re unafraid with death, I think your capacity for violence is immediately increased. Once you’re unafraid of death, you are a very, very dangerous adversary.
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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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It was very much about performances, the whole ensemble thing was just great – everybody working together. Sometimes it didn’t feel like a film set. It wasn’t technically driven, it was very, very enjoyable.
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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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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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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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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’d probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing it.
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