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The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.

Cillian Murphy

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
CILLIAN MURPHY

Character Information Necessary Need Play Yourself
I don’t know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Myself Plane
It’s always nice to be challenged.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Challenge Myself
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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Break Fall In Love Myself Need Thinking
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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Book Home Life Music Myself Party People Quiet
I’ve had the pleasure and the great luck to work with some incredible actors over the years and you have to observe and learn and take something from it and try and become better yourself.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Better Greatness Happiness Luck Observation Work Yourself
You’re an actor who’s Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn’t be limited by your extraction.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Extraction Limitation Yourself
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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Care Choice People Photograph Studio Yourself
I like watching film, I go to the cinema, but a lot of times I go to see kids’ films.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Children Cinema Myself Time
For me it’s always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Medium Myself Story
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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Myself Privilege Start Time
I come from a long line of teachers. Not only did I not go into the family business; I had an aborted law career and I played in bands. ‘Disco Pigs’ was my first professional acting experience.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Act Business Career Experience Family Law Play Professional Teaching
Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Feeling Myself Start
I don’t think they’d ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I’d love to play Chuck Baker
CILLIAN MURPHY

Love Movie Myself Thinking
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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Generation Learning Myself School
I’m terrible. I’m the wrong person to talk to, I really don’t know a thing.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Myself Person Talk Terrible Wrong

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