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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.
Cillian Murphy
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Cillian Murphy
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: May 25
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My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.
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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 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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It's obvious that if you're going to play a character you need to amass information about that person and about their environment or their era that they're in and use as little or as much as necessary
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[We were very lucky that Sean [ Ellis ] researched the film [Anthropoid ] for many years.] We sort of piggybacked on his knowledge, and he gave us a lot of materials, which we read. For me, the greatest resource was actually shooting the film in Prague.
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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 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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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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The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.
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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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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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For me it's always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.
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I'd love to work in America, some of my favourite films come from America.
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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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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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For me, drama is conflict.
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It's always nice to be challenged.
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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 think every director has a different methodology.
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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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