Cillian Murphy Quotes

My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.

My whole career has been completely random and haphazard.

Then 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.

‘She’s a Mystery to Me’ was released in 1987, when I was 11 or something, and I absolutely adored the song. This song was written by Bono and The Edge, and the story goes that Bono woke up with the tune in his head, then thought that the only voice who could sing this song is Roy Orbison.

I enjoy any chance to get in front of a microphone in a role. I’ll do it.

The color grading in ‘Peaky’ is a huge, huge element of the show’s distinctive style, you know?

I loved living in London in my 20s and 30s, but after a while, you kind of go, ‘Right, is this it? Is this it for the rest of my days? Or is there some other possibility?’

I had a really good time in my 20s and 30s.

Geoff Dyer is an abundantly talented writer.

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.

Men and women are custodians of this society, and we both decide what’s going to happen for our future. I feel that very, very strongly.

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

My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.

42 is a really boring age, isn’t it?

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.

Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.

I remember being 18 and being fed up with everything – fed up with society, fed up with the political system, fed up with myself – and then you kind of go, ‘Actually, this voting thing is amazing,’ because you have a chance to change it, right?

If someone asks a stupid question, you can only give a stupid answer or appear arrogant.

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

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.

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 album. I just want to do the work as best as I can, and if that effects change for somebody, then that is great. I don’t want to change the world.

For me, it’s about being at home and living a life. Taking the dog for a walk, doing the shopping, emptying the dishwasher, going for a run.

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

For me, it’s about being at home and living a life. Taking the dog for a walk, doing the shopping, emptying the dishwasher, going for a run.

Then 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.

It’s only an advantage as an actor – looking younger than you are. If you can maintain it.

It’s only an advantage as an actor – looking younger than you are. If you can maintain it.

I don’t think they’d ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I’d love to play Chuck Baker.

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

I don’t have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.

I remember being 18 and being fed up with everything – fed up with society, fed up with the political system, fed up with myself – and then you kind of go, ‘Actually, this voting thing is amazing,’ because you have a chance to change it, right?

I’ve always been an actor who works in every medium – I’ve worked in theater and film and television – I’ve never seen any difference between the three.

If someone asks a stupid question, you can only give a stupid answer or appear arrogant.

Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.

I enjoy any chance to get in front of a microphone in a role. I’ll do it.

Geoff Dyer is an abundantly talented writer.

I don’t have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.

I had a really good time in my 20s and 30s.

It 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.

That time, making ‘Disco Pigs,’ was kind of the most important period of my life. The people I met there remain my closest friends.

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

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 hope they each inform the other in some way.

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

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.