Cillian Murphy Quotes - Page 2

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• I hope that I have gained some wisdom, but I don't know. I have kids, and that certainly puts things into perspective. I think I'm a more patient person. I hope I'm a more patient person. I'm a little more relaxed about the peripheral side of this business, which I used to find very confusing and alarming.

  Cillian Murphy

  Kids, Thinking, Patient Person

  "The Shy Man’s Revenge". Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 17, 2014.

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• 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 Murphy

  Thinking, Mind, Quality

  "The Shy Man’s Revenge". Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 17, 2014.

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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.

  Cillian Murphy

  School, Catholic, Generations

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The medium is secondary to the stories.

  Cillian Murphy

  Stories, Mediums

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• It's a very organic kind of way that people are discovering it, by word of mouth, which I always think is the best way for things to grow. In terms of the affect it's been having on me, I don't even notice that. It's lovely to be able to talk about a piece of work that you're very proud of, that I think's a complex piece of work and not superficial and has depth to it.

  Cillian Murphy

  Thinking, People, Lovely

  "The Shy Man’s Revenge". Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 17, 2014.

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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.

  Cillian Murphy

  Writing, Needs, Actors

  "The Shy Man’s Revenge". Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 17, 2014.

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• I guess because theater's so ephemeral and it's gone. You make this nightly contract with the audience and you redraw that contract for the next night, whereas film and television, it's forever. I suppose it's always about adopting personas, never about being yourself. I think they call it a "shy man's revenge."

  Cillian Murphy

  Being Yourself, Revenge, Night

  "The Shy Man’s Revenge". Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 17, 2014.

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• I think there's such a thing as a performance gene. If it's in your DNA it needs to come out. For me, it originally came out through music, then segued into acting and came out through there. I always needed to get up and perform.

  Cillian Murphy

  Thinking, Dna, Acting

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

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• My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.

  Cillian Murphy

  Wife, My Wife

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• You're an actor who's Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn't be limited by your extraction.

  Cillian Murphy

  Actors, Extraction

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• The boring people are the worst. I think it's obvious, I think people have always had phobias about flying for years even before 9/11 and everything like that. It just taps into that and it taps into who you are going to sit next to on the plane.

  Cillian Murphy

  Thinking, Years, People

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I was obsessed with Batman as a kid. I did the film in part just to be near the Batmobile. But I also think [director] Christopher Nolan made a very fine, intelligent film.

  Cillian Murphy

  Kids, Thinking, Intelligent

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• 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

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• I'm Irish and very proud of being Irish, but as an actor, your extraction should be secondary, really. You should be able to embody whatever character it is, wherever the character comes from. That's always been important, for me. I'm an actor who's Irish, not an Irish actor.

  Cillian Murphy

  Character, Important, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately.

  Cillian Murphy

  Accents, Adamant

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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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.

  Cillian Murphy

  Passion, America, Burning

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• 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

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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."

  Cillian Murphy

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Saying Please

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• 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, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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.

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• I never make a distinction between doing a film in Hollywood or doing a film independently. It's just the story. It's always the story for me. The constants are that it should challenge me and I shouldn't repeat myself. And the story should always be a story worth telling.

  Cillian Murphy

  Challenges, Hollywood, Stories

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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