I don’t think they’d ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I’d love to play Chuck Baker
CILLIAN MURPHYThe best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.
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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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The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.
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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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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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That’s what acting is about, Funny wigs and voices, that’s what we do.
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I personally think if something’s not a challenge there’s no point doing it because you’re not gonna learn much.
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I’d probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing it.
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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.
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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 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 think any actor that says ‘I never watch my films’ is a liar because you have to watch it at least once and also you’re going to watch it when you’re doing your ADR.
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I think you fall out of love with theater while you’re doing your eighth show of your eighteenth week and your body is saying, “Please make this end.”
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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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The medium is secondary to the stories.
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For me it’s always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.
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