Cillian Murphy Quotes

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• My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.

  Cillian Murphy

  Two, Challenges, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• I personally think if something's not a challenge there's no point doing it because you're not gonna learn much.

  Cillian Murphy

  Thinking, Challenges, No Point

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• I think it's necessary to keep moving forward. I've always said that nostalgia is death, really for anyone creative.

  Cillian Murphy

  Moving, Thinking, Creative

  "Cillian Murphy vs. Nils Frahm". Interview with Nils Frahm, www.undertheradarmag.com. January 17, 2014.

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

  Cillian Murphy

  Men, Good Man, Contradiction

  "#ManCrushMonday: Cillian Murphy on Playing a WWII Assassin and Returning to 'Peaky Blinders'". Interview with Julie Kosin, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 15, 2016.

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• I'm terrible. I'm the wrong person to talk to, I really don't know a thing.

  Cillian Murphy

  Wrong Person, Terrible, Persons

  "#ManCrushMonday: Cillian Murphy on Playing a WWII Assassin and Returning to 'Peaky Blinders'". Interview with Julie Kosin, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 15, 2016.

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• It's always nice to be challenged.

  Cillian Murphy

  Nice

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• I like being at home with my music and my books. I’ve done all the partying, I’ve done enough partying for four or five people as a young fella. But now I like the quiet life.

  Cillian Murphy

  Party, Book, Home

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

  Cillian Murphy

  Planes, Knows, Ifs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I suppose I tend to like slightly darker things - people have levelled that on me before and I accept that because in my opinion, if I mention the best movies or the best books, there's always something that's involving slightly darker element of out psyche. I like seeing people under pressure. I like seeing what happens to people when they're under pressure.

  Cillian Murphy

  Book, People, Elements

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• The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.

  Cillian Murphy

  Fighting, Roles, Want

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• For me, drama is conflict.

  Cillian Murphy

  Drama, Conflict

  "#ManCrushMonday: Cillian Murphy on Playing a WWII Assassin and Returning to 'Peaky Blinders'". Interview with Julie Kosin, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 15, 2016.

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• 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 about me in the tabloids.

  Cillian Murphy

  Writing, People, Tabloids

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You know, I'm a skinny Irish guy.

  Cillian Murphy

  Guy, Skinny, Knows

  "#ManCrushMonday: Cillian Murphy on Playing a WWII Assassin and Returning to 'Peaky Blinders'". Interview with Julie Kosin, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 15, 2016.

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• I will always love film, the romance of film, sitting in the darkened room with strangers and watching a story for two hours - that will always remain and never be eroded by television.

  Cillian Murphy

  Two, Romance, Sitting

  "The Shy Man’s Revenge". Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 17, 2014.

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• I'm interested in pressure, I'm interested in duress. All the great works of art, or film or literature, in my opinion, have elements of those in them.

  Cillian Murphy

  Art, Elements, Literature

  "#ManCrushMonday: Cillian Murphy on Playing a WWII Assassin and Returning to 'Peaky Blinders'". Interview with Julie Kosin, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 15, 2016.

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

  Cillian Murphy

  Law, Miserable, Has Beens

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't consider myself a shy person necessarily, but there's something about getting under the skin of a character and allowing you an abandon or a sense of courage that you would never have in your own life.

  Cillian Murphy

  Character, Skins, Shy

  "The Shy Man’s Revenge". Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 17, 2014.

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• And once you're unafraid with death, I think your capacity for violence is immediately increased. Once you're unafraid of death, you are a very, very dangerous adversary

  Cillian Murphy

  Thinking, Violence, Capacity

  "The Shy Man’s Revenge". Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 17, 2014.

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• 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 challenge. If you approach a piece of work and you're going, "Yeah, yeah, I can do that," then that's kind of a red flag.

  Cillian Murphy

  Artist, Thinking, Red Flags

  "The Shy Man’s Revenge". Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 17, 2014.

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• Sociopath is a word that has sort of become shorthand for psychopath and there's a distinct difference, it's interesting if you look it up. Sociopath if you look at the medical definition, the profile of a sociopath is that they are supremely intelligent people that are also pathological liars, they have no moral structure and there is one more, they have no compassion or empathy for other people.

  Cillian Murphy

  Liars, Intelligent, Compassion

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• 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 went down and spent time with transvestites in London in the clubs and all that. Got an insight to that world, and it's a mad world, but they are very warm and very open people. It was a great experience.

  Cillian Murphy

  Men, Mad, People

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• For me it's always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.

  Cillian Murphy

  Stories, Mediums

  "#ManCrushMonday: Cillian Murphy on Playing a WWII Assassin and Returning to 'Peaky Blinders'". Interview with Julie Kosin, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 15, 2016.

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• You need to be as clean of a slate as you can be, as an actor. You have to try to be open to every experience.

  Cillian Murphy

  Trying, Needs, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm kind of loath to pick one project over another or whatever. You go into every film sort of thinking it'll be your best work, and that's necessary. I think in this business, you really have to be forward-looking the whole time. I think nostalgia is sort of the death knell for any artist.

  Cillian Murphy

  Artist, Thinking, Nostalgia

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• The medium is secondary to the stories.

  Cillian Murphy

  Stories, Mediums

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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