What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information. Cillian Murphy More Quotes by Cillian Murphy More Quotes From Cillian Murphy 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 Cillian Murphy depthsakestuff 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 peopleyearsthinking I don't consider myself a shy person necessarily, but there's something about getting under the skin of a character and allowing you an abandon or a sense of courage that you would never have in your own life. Cillian Murphy shyskinscharacter 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. Cillian Murphy tabloidswritingpeople 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 cameraspeoplefall 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 actorsimportantcharacter 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 elementsliteratureart My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it. Cillian Murphy my-wifewife 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 liarswatchesthinking It's always nice to be challenged. Cillian Murphy nice I think it's necessary to keep moving forward. I've always said that nostalgia is death, really for anyone creative. Cillian Murphy creativemovingthinking 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 honestycharacterthinking 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 dnaactingthinking 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-loveneedsthinking 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 hollywoodchallengesstories 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 qualitymindthinking I'm pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately. Cillian Murphy adamantaccents 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 playcharacterthinking I'm not interested in a good man's life. I'm interested in contradiction. Cillian Murphy good-mancontradictionmen 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 saying-pleasefalling-in-lovethinking
