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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

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

Best Fight Role Yourself
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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Element Greatness Interest Literature Opinion
I’m not interested in a good man’s life. I’m interested in contradiction.
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Goodness Interest Life Man Myself
Two weeks ago we couldn’t pronounce your name, but you were in the lead in a film that made millions, so we’re sending you all these scripts.
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Leadership Money Movie Name Pronunciation Scripture Yourself
My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.
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Herself Live Personal Wife
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.
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Act Business Career Experience Family Law Play Professional Teaching
I don’t know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
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Myself Plane
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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Moments Movie Myself Space
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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Culture Distance Live Myself World
My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.
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Challenge Myself Repeat
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.
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Generation Learning Myself School
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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Enjoyment Greatness Performance Technical Togetherness
I really feel actors should try and do as much diverse work as possible to try and keep it interesting.
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Feeling Interest Myself Possible Work
I’ve always felt kind of safe on stage, protected. I’ve talked to other performers about this and they feel the same things, particularly in the live arena. I never get nervous going on stage to do a play. Doing film or television I’ll have more butterflies.
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Kind Myself Nervous Performance Protection Safety
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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Character Information Necessary Need Play Yourself
I’m terrible. I’m the wrong person to talk to, I really don’t know a thing.
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Myself Person Talk Terrible Wrong
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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Audience Different Himself Intelligence Thinking
You need to be as clean of a slate as you can be, as an actor. You have to try to be open to every experience.
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Action Cleaning Experience Open Slate Yourself
I’ve never done a film for the money.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Money Movie Myself
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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Attraction Literature Mindset Music Myself Person Politics Quality Strength
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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Afraid Capacity Dangerous Death Violence Yourself
For me, drama is conflict.
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Conflict Drama Myself
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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Comedy Deep Myself
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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Myself Privilege Start Time
I don’t think they’d ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I’d love to play Chuck Baker
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Love Movie Myself Thinking
For me it’s always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.
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Medium Myself Story
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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Care Choice People Photograph Studio Yourself

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