Cillian Murphy Quotes

I don't know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.

My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.

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.

I personally think if something's not a challenge there's no point doing it because you're not gonna learn much.

I'm terrible. I'm the wrong person to talk to, I really don't know a thing.

I will always love film, the romance of film, sitting in the darkened room with strangers and watching a story for two hours - that will always remain and never be eroded by television.

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.

I don't have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.

You know, I'm a skinny Irish guy.

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.

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

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.

For me it's always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.

I’ve never done a film for the money

I think it's necessary to keep moving forward. I've always said that nostalgia is death, really for anyone creative.

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.

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."

You're an actor who's Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn't be limited by your extraction.

I'd probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing it.

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

I'm not interested in a good man's life. I'm interested in contradiction.

I think any actor that says 'I never watch my films' is a liar because you have to watch it at least once and also you're going to watch it when you're doing your ADR.

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.

The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.

I don't think they'd ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I'd love to play Chuck Baker

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.

It's always nice to be challenged.

I think if you play characters, it's very important not to ever tag them with any sort of disorder, or diagnose them, or whatever. You have to normalize the behavior to get inside the character.

For me, drama is conflict.

At the moment I'm doing this space movie, so I'm obsessed with physics and space travel. I know three months down the line it's gone. Then I'll be able to superficially say stuff about space.

Actors' careers are random with a capital "R."

That's what acting is about, Funny wigs and voices, that's what we do.

I think audiences are a lot more intelligent than what we give them credit for and understand that an actor is playing a role and that doesn't mean he can't play different types of roles.

My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.

The medium is secondary to the stories.

With some films you can sort of slide in, get a haircut and you're in.

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.

Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can

Two weeks ago we couldn't pronounce your name, but you were in the lead in a film that made millions, so we're sending you all these scripts.

I'm pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately.

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.

I really feel actors should try and do as much diverse work as possible to try and keep it interesting.

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

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.

I like watching film, I go to the cinema, but a lot of times I go to see kids' films.

I loved The Fall; I was kind of obsessed with that show.

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.

I think every director has a different methodology.

I've had the pleasure and the great luck to work with some incredible actors over the years and you have to observe and learn and take something from it and try and become better yourself.

I always think it's a sign of a truly gifted director when they can move seamlessly between genres.