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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

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Cillian Murphy
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: May 25
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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.
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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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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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For me it's always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.
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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.
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I think it's necessary to keep moving forward. I've always said that nostalgia is death, really for anyone creative.
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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 feel very lucky to be making good work still. The confidence of youth, or that sort of competitiveness you get when you're 22 or 23, the impatience - that's probably been tempered. Hopefully I'm slightly better company.
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I really feel actors should try and do as much diverse work as possible to try and keep it interesting.
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It's always nice to be challenged.
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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.
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I'd probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing it.
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I think every director has a different methodology.
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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'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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I don't have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.
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I'd love to work in America, some of my favourite films come from America.
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It was very much about performances, the whole ensemble thing was just great - everybody working together. Sometimes it didn't feel like a film set. It wasn't technically driven, it was very, very enjoyable
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I don't think they'd ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I'd love to play Chuck Baker
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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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