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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.

Cillian Murphy

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
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
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
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
CILLIAN MURPHY

Character Information Necessary Need Play 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
My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Herself Live Personal Wife
For me, drama is conflict.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Conflict Drama Myself
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 started off in theater; I did exclusively theater for four or five years. In the last few years, television has come along but I can still make film. I feel very privileged that I can move between them.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Myself Privilege Start Time
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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Darkness Love Movie Myself Romance Story Stranger Watch
I loved The Fall; I was kind of obsessed with that show.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Fall Love Myself Obsession
I think every director has a different methodology.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Different Director Method
All I’ve tried to do as an actor is follow the good writing. That’s been my main drive. It’s not always possible, so when you do come upon it, like when I came upon this, you realize pretty quickly this is something you need to be involved with.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Drive Goodness Main Quick Realization Writing Yourself
I’m terrible. I’m the wrong person to talk to, I really don’t know a thing.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Myself Person Talk Terrible Wrong
You’re an actor who’s Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn’t be limited by your extraction.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Extraction Limitation Yourself
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 MURPHY

Break Fall In Love Myself Need Thinking
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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Character Myself Normal Play Thinking
I’m pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Accent Yourself
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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Lying Thinking Yourself
For me it’s always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Medium Myself Story
I don’t have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Live Myself Passion
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 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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Culture Distance Live Myself World
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
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

Comedy Deep Myself
I’ve never done a film for the money.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Money Movie Myself
I think it’s necessary to keep moving forward. I’ve always said that nostalgia is death, really for anyone creative.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Creative Death Forward Move Myself Necessary Nostalgia Thinking

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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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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