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 MURPHYI like watching film, I go to the cinema, but a lot of times I go to see kids’ films.
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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I’m not interested in a good man’s life. I’m interested in contradiction.
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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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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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If you behave like a celebrity, then people will treat you like a celebrity, and if you don’t, they won’t. There’s not much to write about me in the tabloids.
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It was very much about performances, the whole ensemble thing was just great – everybody working together. Sometimes it didn’t feel like a film set. It wasn’t technically driven, it was very, very enjoyable.
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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’ve never done a film for the money.
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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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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 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 audiences are a lot more intelligent than what we give them credit for and understand that an actor is playing a role and that doesn’t mean he can’t play different types of roles.
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I don’t have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.
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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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For me it’s always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.
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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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