What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information. — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
It's embarrassing sometimes, the way actors or musicians sometimes get made untouchable. — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
I really feel actors should try and do as much diverse work as possible to try and keep it interesting. — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
I think audiences are a lot more intelligent than what we give them credit for and understand that an actor is playing… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
I think for me with theater, I need to take a break and then fall in love with it again. And then… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
I've had the pleasure and the great luck to work with some incredible actors over the years and you have to observe… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
I think you fall out of love with theater while you're doing your eighth show of your eighteenth week and your body… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
You need to be as clean of a slate as you can be, as an actor. You have to try to be… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
I've always been an actor who works in every medium - I've worked in theater and film and television - I've never… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
A director, I forget who, told me that it takes 30 years to make an actor. And I believe that. You have… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
I started off in theater; I did exclusively theater for four or five years. In the last few years, television has come… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
I don't care if people perceive me as always selling out because I'm doing a studio picture. For me, the whole thing… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
In terms of trying to improve as an actor, for me it's always important to return to the stage. After doing a… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
There's always a level where you think you can improve and do better. Certainly at the beginning... I did four years of… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
I guess because theater's so ephemeral and it's gone. You make this nightly contract with the audience and you redraw that contract… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
Then, at age 20, I discovered theater sort of by accident. Quite quickly, theater became more important to me than music. I… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
After kids, the desire to improve as an actor remains, but time becomes hugely important. I want to do good work and… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
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,… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
For me, it's about being at home and living a life. Taking the dog for a walk, doing the shopping, emptying the dishwasher, going… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share
But television affords you, what you just described, to - over the course of 18 hours, now that we're doing a third season -… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share
I try not to think retrospectively. It's important, as an artist, to look forward, always. I do try to take work that involves some… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share
I think there's such a thing, as a performance gene. If it's in your DNA it needs to come out. For me it originally… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share
It seemed to work on camera. And there's very few films - because you make a lot of films and you meet people and… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share
I've said this before: myself and Tommy Shelby, he's the most unlike-me character I have ever played. — Cillian Murphy Copy Share
I like the little bit of distance that London affords me and I like living in a world capital. I like having the culture… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share
[We were very lucky that Sean [ Ellis ] researched the film [Anthropoid ] for many years.] We sort of piggybacked on his knowledge,… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share
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… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share
A director, I forget who, told me that it takes 30 years to make an actor. And I believe that. You have to learn… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share
It's embarrassing sometimes, the way actors or musicians sometimes get made untouchable. — Cillian Murphy Copy Share
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,… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share
I think for me with theater, I need to take a break and then fall in love with it again. And then go do… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share
