I suppose I’ve always been attracted to this sort of outsider in general – in literature, in music, politics, whatever – and to the person that is able to be relentlessly themselves. I don’t think that I have that quality, that strength of mind.
CILLIAN MURPHYI 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.
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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.
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I’m pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately.
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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.
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I think every director has a different methodology.
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I’m not interested in a good man’s life. I’m interested in contradiction.
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The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.
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I don’t know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
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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.
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And once you’re unafraid with death, I think your capacity for violence is immediately increased. Once you’re unafraid of death, you are a very, very dangerous adversary.
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I like watching film, I go to the cinema, but a lot of times I go to see kids’ films.
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I’ve never done a film for the money.
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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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My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.
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I loved The Fall; I was kind of obsessed with that show.
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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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Every Irish person of my generation and earlier, we were raised Catholic and we’d have to learn it in school, we’d to learn the catechism by rote.
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Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.
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I’m terrible. I’m the wrong person to talk to, I really don’t know a thing.
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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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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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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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The medium is secondary to the stories.
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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.
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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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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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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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