165 Quotes by Cillian Murphy

"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's what acting is about, Funny wigs and voices, that's what we do."

"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."

"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."

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

"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"

"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"

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

"I’ve never done a film for the money"

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