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 MURPHYThe medium is secondary to the stories.
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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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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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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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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I don’t know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
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I think every director has a different methodology.
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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’m pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately.
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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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I’d probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing 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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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 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’ve never done a film for the money.
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I will always love film, the romance of film, sitting in the darkened room with strangers and watching a story for two hours – that will always remain and never be eroded by television.
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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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The medium is secondary to the stories.
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For me, drama is conflict.
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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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My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.
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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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That’s what acting is about, Funny wigs and voices, that’s what we do.
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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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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 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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You’re an actor who’s Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn’t be limited by your extraction.
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You take the job very seriously and between action and cut, that’s where your focus should be. And then there’s a lot of levity in between and a lot of good fun.
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