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I really feel actors should try and do as much diverse work as possible to try and keep it interesting.
Cillian Murphy
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Cillian Murphy
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: May 25
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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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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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The medium is secondary to the stories.
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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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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 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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For me, drama is conflict.
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Every Irish person of my generation and earlier, we were raised Catholic and we'd have to learn it in school, we'd to learn the catechism by rote.
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I'm Irish and very proud of being Irish, but as an actor, your extraction should be secondary, really. You should be able to embody whatever character it is, wherever the character comes from. That's always been important, for me. I'm an actor who's Irish, not an Irish actor.
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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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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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I always think it's a sign of a truly gifted director when they can move seamlessly between genres.
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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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My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.
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I'm kind of loath to pick one project over another or whatever. You go into every film sort of thinking it'll be your best work, and that's necessary. I think in this business, you really have to be forward-looking the whole time. I think nostalgia is sort of the death knell for any artist.
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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 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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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'd probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing it.
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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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