Cillian Murphy Quotes

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• 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.…
• That's what acting is about, Funny wigs and voices, that's what we do.
• 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]…
• I take my hat off to the ladies. The amount of grooming-plucking and shaving and all the other things men never have to do. I…
• 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 don't know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
• 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.
• My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.
• I don't have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.
• 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…
• 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 came…
• I’ve never done a film for the money
• It's obvious that if you're going to play a character you need to amass information about that person and about their environment or their era…
• I don't think they'd ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I'd love to play Chuck Baker
• 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…
• Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can
• What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information.
• The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.
• I enjoy all aspects of it, I don't have a preference for any medium. I think each of them has its attractions and I would…

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