More - Cillian Murphy Quotes

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.'

Cillian Murphy

 

I'd probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing it.

Cillian Murphy

 Law

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

Cillian Murphy

 Acting And Actors

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

 Batman

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

 

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

Cillian Murphy

 

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.

Cillian Murphy

 

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.

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

Cillian Murphy

 

That's the point. You think you could be in that situation. It brings up all those universal anxieties about flying, even before the story turns dark.

Cillian Murphy