Cillian Murphy's Quotes
Born: 1974-03-13
Profession: Actor
Nation: Irish
Biography of Cillian Murphy
My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.
Tags: Affects, She, WifeAt 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.
Tags: Able, Moment, TravelHaving started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.
Tags: Impulse, Started, TheatreI don't have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.
Tags: America, Passion, WorkI don't think they'd ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I'd love to play Chuck Baker.
Tags: Baker, Love, MovieI'd love to work in America, some of my favourite films come from America.
Tags: America, Love, WorkThe best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.
Tags: After, Best, FightWhat we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information.
Tags: Learn, PhasesI 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 hope they each inform the other in some way.
Tags: Aspects, Enjoy, HopeIt was very much about performances, the whole ensemble thing was just great - everybody working together. Sometimes it didn't feel like a film set. It wasn't technically driven, it was very, very enjoyable.
Tags: Great, Together, WorkingIt'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 that they're in and use as little or as much as necessary.
Tags: Character, Necessary, ObviousThen I wanted the character to be feminine as opposed to effeminate. Because it's easy to be camp or queen. Anyone can do that. What's difficult is to play feminine.
Tags: Character, Difficult, WantedThere'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.
Tags: Comedy, Else, Stuff