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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.

Cillian Murphy

I personally think if something’s not a challenge there’s no point doing it because you’re not gonna learn much.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Challenge Learning Personal Point Thinking Yourself
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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Break Fall In Love Myself Need Thinking
That’s what acting is about, Funny wigs and voices, that’s what we do.
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Act Myself Voice
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’ve never done a film for the money.
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Money Movie Myself
You’re an actor who’s Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn’t be limited by your extraction.
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Extraction Limitation Yourself
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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Artist Flag Important Kind Pieces Thinking Try
If you behave like a celebrity, then people will treat you like a celebrity, and if you don’t, they won’t. There’s not much to write about me in the tabloids.
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Celebrity Myself People Treat Writing
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
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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Age Ambition Music Professional Serious Young Yourself
For me, drama is conflict.
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Conflict Drama Myself
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’d probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing it.
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Law Misery Myself Stay Wealth
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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Character Myself Normal Play Thinking
I’m pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately.
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Accent Yourself
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 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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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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