Cillian Murphy Quotes (32 Quotes)

I have a deepening respect for women. It's a lot of pain. The plucking of the eyebrows is the worst. It gets better. The first time is hard.

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.

He obviously knows through his movies how to exploit terror, and he seems to be able to investigate fears that we all have and exploit them or magnify them. There's a particular way of doing films like this. There's a particular way to manipulate the audience to get sort of a reaction out of them, and he can do that.

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

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.

You're an actor who's Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn't be limited by your extraction.

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.

Neil Jordan is one of my favorite directors. Not just because he's Irish and I'm Irish. In the world of directors, he's one of those guys.

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

Sometimes the darker stuff has greater potential for drama, it's always interesting to investigate things that you might come across in your own life.

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 am very different to Colin Farrell. I admire him tremendously. We are both Irish and are both the same age,

What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information.

He's this kid growing up in a small town in Ireland in the 70's--you know the height of the troubles in Ireland, ... He discovers he's an adopted orphan and that his father is actually this parish priest, played by Liam Neeson. So it's just this crazy mad journey that he goes on to find his love.

Yeah, I suppose slightly more people now can pronounce my name. It's all about recognition, isn't it I have a funny cognizance of the fact that Hollywood is about commerce and art it's an uncomfortable mixture of the two. People aren't going to put you in a movie unless people know who you are, and if your movie made 80 million, people will go Hey, we'll put him in a movie.' It isn't necessarily about the performance, so yeah, that was great and it means you get to read scripts and meet people that you wouldn't have done in the past.

He's a wonderful, beautiful misfit, and he tends to trust and fall in love with people immediately.

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

I was excited. I thought with his ability to manipulate an audience and a smart piece of writing, we could really have something.

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

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.

He needs the girl. It's that simple. There's no question of morality for him.

That was a fun script and a lot of great Irish 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.

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.

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.

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.

That was the first time people noticed me in the U.S..

And I'd love to work with Robert Altman.

I don't worry about it, ... I just worked with Neil Jordan on 'Breakfast On Pluto,' where I play an Irish transvestite singer in a London cabaret.'

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.

But I don't look like Colin Farrell, I don't behave like Colin Farrell, and I do different movies than Colin Farrell.