Quotes by Cillian Murphy

• 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.
• My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.
• The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.
• 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.
• What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information.
• 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.
• 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'd love to work in America, some of my favourite films come from America.
• I don't think they'd ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I'd love to play Chuck Baker.
• I don't have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.
• Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.
• 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.
• 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.
• Be happy, it drives people crazy.