I loved The Fall; I was kind of obsessed with that show.
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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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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For me, drama is conflict.
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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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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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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 always think it’s a sign of a truly gifted director when they can move seamlessly between genres.
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That’s what acting is about, Funny wigs and voices, that’s what we do.
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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 like watching film, I go to the cinema, but a lot of times I go to see kids’ films.
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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 it’s necessary to keep moving forward. I’ve always said that nostalgia is death, really for anyone creative.
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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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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 think every director has a different methodology.
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I’m pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately.
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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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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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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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My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.
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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’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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I’ve never done a film for the money.
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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 terrible. I’m the wrong person to talk to, I really don’t know a thing.
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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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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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