Cillian Murphy famous quotes

06-24-2025

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

#Planes
I'm Irish and very proud of being Irish, but as an actor, your extraction should be secondary, really. You should be able to embody whatever character it is, wherever the character comes from. That's always been important, for me. I'm an actor who's Irish, not an Irish actor.
-- Cillian Murphy

#Character #Important #Actors
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
My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.
-- Cillian Murphy

#Two #Challenges #Trying
I've had the pleasure and the great luck to work with some incredible actors over the years and you have to observe and learn and take something from it and try and become better yourself.
-- Cillian Murphy

#Years #Luck #Trying
I never make a distinction between doing a film in Hollywood or doing a film independently. It's just the story. It's always the story for me. The constants are that it should challenge me and I shouldn't repeat myself. And the story should always be a story worth telling.
-- Cillian Murphy

#Challenges #Hollywood #Stories
I like the little bit of distance that London affords me and I like living in a world capital. I like having the culture at my fingertips.
-- Cillian Murphy

#Distance #Culture #World
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. Then I'll be able to superficially say stuff about space.
-- Cillian Murphy

#Space #Months #Three
Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can
-- Cillian Murphy

#Theatre #Impulse #Feels
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 like stuff like that
-- Cillian Murphy

#Depth #Stuff #Sake
I don't think they'd ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I'd love to play Chuck Baker
-- Cillian Murphy

#Thinking #Play #Bakers
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 that they're in and use as little or as much as necessary
-- Cillian Murphy

#Character #Play #Needs
Iâ€™ve never done a film for the money
-- Cillian Murphy

#Done #Film
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 out through music, then segued into acting and came out through there. I always needed to get up and perform.
-- Cillian Murphy

#Thinking #Dna #Acting
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
I don't have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.
-- Cillian Murphy

#Passion #America #Burning
My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.
-- Cillian Murphy

#Wife #My Wife
I'd probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing it.
-- Cillian Murphy

#Law #Miserable
You're an actor who's Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn't be limited by your extraction.
-- Cillian Murphy

#Actors
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 played in bands. 'Disco Pigs' was my first professional acting experience.
-- Cillian Murphy

#Teacher #Pigs #Law
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 #People #Mad
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] Christopher Nolan made a very fine, intelligent film.
-- Cillian Murphy

#Kids #Intelligent #Thinking
That's what acting is about, Funny wigs and voices, that's what we do.
-- Cillian Murphy

#Voice #Acting #Wigs
Two weeks ago we couldn't pronounce your name, but you were in the lead in a film that made millions, so we're sending you all these scripts.
-- Cillian Murphy

#Names #Two #Hollywood

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