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I like watching film, I go to the cinema, but a lot of times I go to see kids’ films.

Cillian Murphy

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.
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Act Business Career Experience Family Law Play Professional Teaching
It’s always nice to be challenged.
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Challenge Myself
Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.
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Feeling Myself Start
For me it’s always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.
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Medium Myself Story
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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Kind Myself Nervous Performance Protection Safety
I loved The Fall; I was kind of obsessed with that show.
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Fall Love Myself Obsession
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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Creative Death Forward Move Myself Necessary Nostalgia Thinking
You take the job very seriously and between action and cut, that’s where your focus should be. And then there’s a lot of levity in between and a lot of good fun.
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Action Focus Fun Goodness Job Serious Yourself
I don’t know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
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Myself Plane
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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Challenge Learning Personal Point Thinking 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
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Character Information Necessary Need Play Yourself
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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Artist Flag Important Kind Pieces Thinking Try
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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Age Ambition Music Professional Serious Young 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.
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Lying Thinking Yourself
I’m not interested in a good man’s life. I’m interested in contradiction.
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Goodness Interest Life Man Myself
You’re an actor who’s Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn’t be limited by your extraction.
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Extraction Limitation Yourself
For me, drama is conflict.
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Conflict Drama Myself
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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Body End Fall Love Movie Play Thinking Yourself
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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Drive Goodness Main Quick Realization Writing Yourself
My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.
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Herself Live Personal Wife
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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Generation Learning Myself School
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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Element Greatness Interest Literature Opinion
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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Culture Distance Live Myself World
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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Audience Different Himself Intelligence Thinking
I think every director has a different methodology.
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Different Director Method
I really feel actors should try and do as much diverse work as possible to try and keep it interesting.
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Feeling Interest Myself Possible Work
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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Love Movie Myself Thinking

I like watching film, I go to the cinema, but a lot of times I go to see kids’ films.

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