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.
CILLIAN MURPHYMy only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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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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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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Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.
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I’ve never done a film for the money.
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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 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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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 need to be as clean of a slate as you can be, as an actor. You have to try to be open to every experience.
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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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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 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 don’t know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
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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 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’m pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately.
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The medium is secondary to the stories.
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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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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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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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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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For me, drama is conflict.
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I think audiences are a lot more intelligent than what we give them credit for and understand that an actor is playing a role and that doesn’t mean he can’t play different types of roles.
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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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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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It’s always nice to be challenged.
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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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