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I'd love to work in America, some of my favourite films come from America.

Cillian Murphy

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Cillian Murphy
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: May 25
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Then, at age 20, I discovered theater sort of by accident. Quite quickly, theater became more important to me than music. I began to realize that maybe my talents as a musician were quite limited, or had a ceiling to them, whereas acting seemed to sort of stretch before me. I got very passionate about it very quickly.
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It's always nice to be challenged.
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My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.
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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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For me, drama is conflict.
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You take the job very seriously and between action and cut, that's where your focus should be. And then there's a lot of levity in between and a lot of good fun.
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You know, I'm a skinny Irish guy.
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From a very young age I had an ambition to be a musician, and to do that professionally. That's what I pursued until I was about 20, playing in bands that were taken pretty seriously at that stage.
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I come from a long line of teachers. Not only did I not go into the family business I had an aborted law career and I played in bands. 'Disco Pigs' was my first professional acting 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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And, for any performer, to be able to go deep into character is fantastic. In film you only get to do that if you're the leading character. But in television you get 18 hours to really test the audience and take them to the edge of how far they will go with this character. I can step over this line and I love that.
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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
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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'm pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately.
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With some films you can sort of slide in, get a haircut and you're in.
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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
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I like the little bit of distance that London affords me and I like living in a world capital. I like having the culture at my fingertips.
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