My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.
CILLIAN MURPHYI 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.
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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It’s always nice to be challenged.
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I’m not interested in a good man’s life. I’m interested in contradiction.
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I’ve never done a film for the money.
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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 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.
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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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I really feel actors should try and do as much diverse work as possible to try and keep it interesting.
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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 don’t know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
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I’m pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately.
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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 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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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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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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