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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
Actor
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Stage Actor
Television Actor
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My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.
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I'd love to work in America, some of my favourite films come from America.
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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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It's always nice to be challenged.
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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 terrible. I'm the wrong person to talk to, I really don't know a thing.
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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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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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The medium is secondary to the stories.
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