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.
CILLIAN MURPHYMy only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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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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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 don’t know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
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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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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 like watching film, I go to the cinema, but a lot of times I go to see kids’ films.
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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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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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The medium is secondary to the stories.
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For me, drama is conflict.
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My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.
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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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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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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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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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