Cillian Murphy

For me, it's about being at home and living a life. Taking the dog for a walk, doing the shopping, emptying the…

— Cillian Murphy

But television affords you, what you just described, to - over the course of 18 hours, now that we're doing a third…

— Cillian Murphy

I try not to think retrospectively. It's important, as an artist, to look forward, always. I do try to take work that…

— Cillian Murphy

I think there's such a thing, as a performance gene. If it's in your DNA it needs to come out. For me…

— Cillian Murphy

It seemed to work on camera. And there's very few films - because you make a lot of films and you meet…

— Cillian Murphy

I've said this before: myself and Tommy Shelby, he's the most unlike-me character I have ever played.

— Cillian Murphy

I like the little bit of distance that London affords me and I like living in a world capital. I like having…

— Cillian Murphy

[We were very lucky that Sean [ Ellis ] researched the film [Anthropoid ] for many years.] We sort of piggybacked on…

— Cillian Murphy

From a very young age I had an ambition to be a musician, and to do that professionally. That's what I pursued…

— Cillian Murphy

I've written my own music, and I play guitar.

— Cillian Murphy

A director, I forget who, told me that it takes 30 years to make an actor. And I believe that. You have…

— Cillian Murphy

It's embarrassing sometimes, the way actors or musicians sometimes get made untouchable.

— Cillian Murphy

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

— Cillian Murphy

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

I think for me with theater, I need to take a break and then fall in love with it again. And then…

— Cillian Murphy

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

— Cillian Murphy

I know I am old-fashioned, but I don't want to bring out a fashion line, I don't want to bring out an…

— Cillian Murphy

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

That time, making 'Disco Pigs,' was kind of the most important period of my life. The people I met there remain my…

— Cillian Murphy

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

— Cillian Murphy

It's always nice to be challenged.

— Cillian Murphy

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

— Cillian Murphy

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

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

— Cillian Murphy

I don't do karaoke. You know how some people don't like massages? They don't like massages; I don't like karaoke.

— Cillian Murphy