I think it’s necessary to keep moving forward. I’ve always said that nostalgia is death, really for anyone creative.
CILLIAN MURPHYI 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.
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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I try not to think retrospectively. It’s important, as an artist, to look forward, always. I do try to take work that involves some challenge. If you approach a piece of work and you’re going, “Yeah, yeah, I can do that,” then that’s kind of a red flag.
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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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My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.
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I’m pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately.
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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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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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It’s always nice to be challenged.
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That’s what acting is about, Funny wigs and voices, that’s what we do.
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I don’t know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
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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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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 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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You’re an actor who’s Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn’t be limited by your extraction.
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There’s a lot of comedy in Intermission but it’s got this depth. It’s not comedy for comedy’s sake – it’s informed by something else. I like stuff like that
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