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.
CILLIAN MURPHYI don’t know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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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 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 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 always nice to be challenged.
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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 think any actor that says ‘I never watch my films’ is a liar because you have to watch it at least once and also you’re going to watch it when you’re doing your ADR.
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For me it’s always been about the stories, not what medium. 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 really feel actors should try and do as much diverse work as possible to try and keep it interesting.
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I’m not interested in a good man’s life. I’m interested in contradiction.
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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 think it’s necessary to keep moving forward. I’ve always said that nostalgia is death, really for anyone creative.
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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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