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
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 like watching film, I go to the cinema, but a lot of times I go to see kids’ films.
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I don’t know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
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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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Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.
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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 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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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 loved The Fall; I was kind of obsessed with that show.
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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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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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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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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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I’m not interested in a good man’s life. I’m interested in contradiction.
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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 like the little bit of distance that London affords me and I like living in a world capital. I like having the culture at my fingertips.
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