Killian Scott

I find it fascinating the things that capture people's imagination.

— Killian Scott

I did a play in school. Then Dramsoc became the centre of my universe.

— Killian Scott

I've always looked for roles that were far removed from me.

— Killian Scott

I had to act with a wolf, which made me very uncomfortable! It still does. I think about it all the time!

— Killian Scott

I am trundling in a good direction. I am curious to see how things will work out before I take myself off…

— Killian Scott

I mean, in all fairness, in the grand scheme of things, if the greatest inconvenience of my life is that sometimes people…

— Killian Scott

The most common experience in my life is rejection. I've done over 300 auditions. No amount of drama school training can prepare…

— Killian Scott

The thing I learned from watching Iain Glen and Brendan Gleeson, and Aidan Gillen and Michael Fassbender when I worked with them,…

— Killian Scott

I am Killian Murphy. One day, I realised I needed a new name. I was doing 'Under Milk Wood' and had 24…

— Killian Scott

I really am not overly comfortable with attention to be honest. Paradoxically I've noticed this is a pretty common trait amongst actors.…

— Killian Scott

It's terrible for people when they really love a book and there's an adaptation and they don't like it, because it's almost…

— Killian Scott

I had a wonderful, an incredible dialect coach, Brendan Gunn, from Belfast, who has worked with Brad Pitt and Daniel Day Lewis,…

— Killian Scott

Anything that's been useful to me as a person has been useful to me as an actor. Anything in the interest of…

— Killian Scott

What can often happen when doing accents is that you go too far to one extreme, so it becomes a caricature. It's…

— Killian Scott

But acting had entered my world through older brothers. It was a basic thing: all that just looks cool.

— Killian Scott

Acting is very much my life, but acting is what I want to do so to be able to say that is…

— Killian Scott

When you're a working actor you see a lot of scripts all the time, but to get to do something that's really…

— Killian Scott

Every time you play a different role with different actors in different locations, you're developing a greater level of comfort in the…

— Killian Scott

Damnation' and 'Dublin Murders' are the first lead roles I've gotten to do. The more time you spend in front of the…

— Killian Scott

If you're lucky enough to find success at a job that you love then I don't think you have much right to…

— Killian Scott

I think when you're a fan of a book you do have your own little version of the characters and I hope…

— Killian Scott

You're always a bit nervous or apprehensive with something like 'Love/Hate' and the level of attention it gets.

— Killian Scott

Broadchurch' was very naturalistically shot, in many respects, whereas 'Dublin Murders' has a slightly heightened element cinematically, because there is a supernatural,…

— Killian Scott

There are ways of staying under the radar here, and they're effective to a degree. But if you're an ambitious person and…

— Killian Scott

Politics is real. It has an impact on people's lives. It's harder to quantify the impact art has. Personally, I oscillate between…

— Killian Scott