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.
CILLIAN MURPHYThe best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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I’ve never done a film for the money.
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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’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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I’m not interested in a good man’s life. I’m interested in contradiction.
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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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I really feel actors should try and do as much diverse work as possible to try and keep it interesting.
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The medium is secondary to the stories.
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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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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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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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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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I think every director has a different methodology.
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I think it’s necessary to keep moving forward. I’ve always said that nostalgia is death, really for anyone creative.
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For me, drama is conflict.
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