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.
CILLIAN MURPHYI don’t know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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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’m pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately.
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My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.
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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 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 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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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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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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I loved The Fall; I was kind of obsessed with that show.
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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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I don’t know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
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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 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 like the little bit of distance that London affords me and I like living in a world capital. I like having the culture at my fingertips.
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