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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

Cillian Murphy

It’s always nice to be challenged.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Challenge Myself
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.”
CILLIAN MURPHY

Body End Fall Love Movie Play Thinking Yourself
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
It was very much about performances, the whole ensemble thing was just great – everybody working together. Sometimes it didn’t feel like a film set. It wasn’t technically driven, it was very, very enjoyable.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Enjoyment Greatness Performance Technical Togetherness
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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Action Focus Fun Goodness Job Serious Yourself
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 MURPHY

Age Ambition Music Professional Serious Young Yourself
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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Kind Myself Nervous Performance Protection Safety
I like watching film, I go to the cinema, but a lot of times I go to see kids’ films.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Children Cinema Myself Time
I’m interested in pressure, I’m interested in duress. All the great works of art, or film or literature, in my opinion, have elements of those in them.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Element Greatness Interest Literature Opinion
I always think it’s a sign of a truly gifted director when they can move seamlessly between genres.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Director Gift Myself Thinking True
Two weeks ago we couldn’t pronounce your name, but you were in the lead in a film that made millions, so we’re sending you all these scripts.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Leadership Money Movie Name Pronunciation Scripture Yourself
I’d probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing it.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Law Misery Myself Stay Wealth
Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Feeling Myself Start
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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Celebrity Myself People Treat Writing
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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Better Greatness Happiness Luck Observation Work Yourself
I don’t think they’d ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I’d love to play Chuck Baker
CILLIAN MURPHY

Love Movie Myself Thinking

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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