You're an actor who's Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn't be limited by your extraction. Cillian Murphy More Quotes by Cillian Murphy More Quotes From Cillian Murphy I don't know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again. Cillian Murphy planes ifs knows My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself. Cillian Murphy challenges trying two I personally think if something's not a challenge there's no point doing it because you're not gonna learn much. Cillian Murphy no-point challenges thinking I suppose I tend to like slightly darker things - people have levelled that on me before and I accept that because in my opinion, if I mention the best movies or the best books, there's always something that's involving slightly darker element of out psyche. I like seeing people under pressure. I like seeing what happens to people when they're under pressure. Cillian Murphy elements book people I like being at home with my music and my books. I’ve done all the partying, I’ve done enough partying for four or five people as a young fella. But now I like the quiet life. Cillian Murphy party home book I'm terrible. I'm the wrong person to talk to, I really don't know a thing. Cillian Murphy wrong-person terrible persons I take my hat off to the ladies. The amount of grooming-plucking and shaving and all the other things men never have to do. I went down and spent time with transvestites in London in the clubs and all that. Got an insight to that world, and it's a mad world, but they are very warm and very open people. It was a great experience. Cillian Murphy mad men people Sociopath is a word that has sort of become shorthand for psychopath and there's a distinct difference, it's interesting if you look it up. Sociopath if you look at the medical definition, the profile of a sociopath is that they are supremely intelligent people that are also pathological liars, they have no moral structure and there is one more, they have no compassion or empathy for other people. Cillian Murphy intelligent compassion liars I will always love film, the romance of film, sitting in the darkened room with strangers and watching a story for two hours - that will always remain and never be eroded by television. Cillian Murphy romance sitting two You know, I'm a skinny Irish guy. Cillian Murphy skinny guy knows 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. Cillian Murphy red-flags artist thinking 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 patient-person kids thinking You need to be as clean of a slate as you can be, as an actor. You have to try to be open to every experience. Cillian Murphy actors trying needs I'd probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing it. Cillian Murphy has-beens miserable law 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 location able guy For me it's always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories. Cillian Murphy mediums stories 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 generations catholic school 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 intelligent kids thinking And once you're unafraid with death, I think your capacity for violence is immediately increased. Once you're unafraid of death, you are a very, very dangerous adversary Cillian Murphy violence capacity thinking 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 depth sake stuff
