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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
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Cillian Murphy
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: May 25
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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.
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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.
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I'd love to work in America, some of my favourite films come from America.
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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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In terms of trying to improve as an actor, for me it's always important to return to the stage. After doing a piece of theater for a prolonged period, I can think I must have surely improved in some way as an actor - you must be fitter than you were prior to doing it. For me, theater is very, very important in keeping things fresh and dangerous.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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I'm pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately.
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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.
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My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.
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I always think it's a sign of a truly gifted director when they can move seamlessly between genres.
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