Latest Cillian Murphy Quotes from Interviews

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• I'm kind of loath to pick one project over another or whatever. You go into every film sort of thinking it'll be your best work, and that's necessary. I think in this business, you really have to be forward-looking the whole time. I think nostalgia is sort of the death knell for any artist.

  Cillian Murphy

  Artist, Thinking, Nostalgia

  Source: film.avclub.com

• I'm definitely a frustrated musician, though it's more in terms of wishing I was a better guitar player and songwriter. But I've never regretted becoming an actor instead. I think it's been a more pure form of self-expression for me. I luckily found something that I could aspire to be good at, whereas I never... I think I'd never quite reach that level of artist that I enjoy in the music world.

  Cillian Murphy

  Artist, Player, Thinking

  Source: film.avclub.com

• I really feel actors should try and do as much diverse work as possible to try and keep it interesting.

  Cillian Murphy

  Interesting, Trying, Diverse

  Source: film.avclub.com

• There's always a level where you think you can improve and do better. Certainly at the beginning... I did four years of straight theater without ever having a part in a movie, and I remember being far more nervous on a film set than I was on the stage. It took a while for that to become less so.

  Cillian Murphy

  Thinking, Remember, Film

  Source: film.avclub.com

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

  Cillian Murphy

  Kids, Cinema, Film

  "#ManCrushMonday: Cillian Murphy on Playing a WWII Assassin and Returning to 'Peaky Blinders'". Interview with Julie Kosin, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 15, 2016.

• I'm terrible. I'm the wrong person to talk to, I really don't know a thing.

  Cillian Murphy

  Wrong Person, Terrible, Persons

  "#ManCrushMonday: Cillian Murphy on Playing a WWII Assassin and Returning to 'Peaky Blinders'". Interview with Julie Kosin, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 15, 2016.

• I'm not interested in a good man's life. I'm interested in contradiction.

  Cillian Murphy

  Men, Good Man, Contradiction

  "#ManCrushMonday: Cillian Murphy on Playing a WWII Assassin and Returning to 'Peaky Blinders'". Interview with Julie Kosin, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 15, 2016.

• 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.

  Cillian Murphy

  Art, Elements, Literature

  "#ManCrushMonday: Cillian Murphy on Playing a WWII Assassin and Returning to 'Peaky Blinders'". Interview with Julie Kosin, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 15, 2016.

• For me, drama is conflict.

  Cillian Murphy

  Drama, Conflict

  "#ManCrushMonday: Cillian Murphy on Playing a WWII Assassin and Returning to 'Peaky Blinders'". Interview with Julie Kosin, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 15, 2016.

• With some films you can sort of slide in, get a haircut and you're in.

  Cillian Murphy

  Slides, Film, Haircuts

  "#ManCrushMonday: Cillian Murphy on Playing a WWII Assassin and Returning to 'Peaky Blinders'". Interview with Julie Kosin, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 15, 2016.

• You know, I'm a skinny Irish guy.

  Cillian Murphy

  Guy, Skinny, Knows

  "#ManCrushMonday: Cillian Murphy on Playing a WWII Assassin and Returning to 'Peaky Blinders'". Interview with Julie Kosin, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 15, 2016.

• Actors' careers are random with a capital "R."

  Cillian Murphy

  Careers, Actors

  "#ManCrushMonday: Cillian Murphy on Playing a WWII Assassin and Returning to 'Peaky Blinders'". Interview with Julie Kosin, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 15, 2016.

• For me it's always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.

  Cillian Murphy

  Stories, Mediums

  "#ManCrushMonday: Cillian Murphy on Playing a WWII Assassin and Returning to 'Peaky Blinders'". Interview with Julie Kosin, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 15, 2016.

• 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

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Needs

  "#ManCrushMonday: Cillian Murphy on Playing a WWII Assassin and Returning to 'Peaky Blinders'". Interview with Julie Kosin, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 15, 2016.

• 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

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Saying Please

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• The medium is secondary to the stories.

  Cillian Murphy

  Stories, Mediums

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• 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

  Moving, Years, Television

  "#ManCrushMonday: Cillian Murphy on Playing a WWII Assassin and Returning to 'Peaky Blinders'". Interview with Julie Kosin, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 15, 2016.

• 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.

  Cillian Murphy

  Jobs, Fun, Cutting

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• I have a list as long as my arm but I find those lists sort of self-defeating because you start to name and then after [the interviewer] leaves the room you go 'Ah, I forgot this person or that person.' So I just don't do it anymore. Hopefully if you make work that people like, they'll get in contact with you.

  Cillian Murphy

  Self, Names, Long

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• 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

  Liars, Thinking, Watches

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• It seemed to work on camera. And there's very few films - because you make a lot of films and you meet people and you work very intensely and intimately and then you're gone - but there's a few where you actually make friends, and this [The Fall] was one.

  Cillian Murphy

  Fall, People, Cameras

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• There's this thing that's come about that wasn't there when I started acting which is they do this thing called a chemistry test. They put a camera in front of two people, it's usually a boy and a girl, and they go, [whispering]. It's impossible. You can't manufacture it or film it, it just has to happen.

  Cillian Murphy

  Girl, Boys, Two

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• I loved The Fall; I was kind of obsessed with that show.

  Cillian Murphy

  Fall, Kind, Obsessed

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• You do your due diligence, you read as much as you can, and then, ultimately, I find that you discard that and you concentrate on the characters [of 'Antropoid'] and you can draw on [the research] if you wish, but I think ultimately it's about bringing as much truth and honesty to the portrayal as possible.

  Cillian Murphy

  Honesty, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• We were able to shoot in a lot of the locations where the mission actually happened and these guys existed, so that was kind of very affecting. We had a Czech crew and a lot of Czech actors. There's a great deal of authenticity to the project [Anthropoid], and Sean [Ellis] was very anxious that that was the case from the beginning.

  Cillian Murphy

  Guy, Able, Location

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com