25 ordspråk av Cillian Murphy
Cillian Murphy
But I don't look like Colin Farrell, I don't behave like Colin Farrell, and I do different movies than Colin Farrell.
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For me, this is a film about people under pressure. That's what it fundamentally boils down to.
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He needs the girl. It's that simple. There's no question of morality for him.
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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.
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He's a wonderful, beautiful misfit, and he tends to trust and fall in love with people immediately.
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He's just a kid who was quite effeminate and obviously gay, but he wasn't a Tootsie trying to pass.
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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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I am very different to Colin Farrell. I admire him tremendously. We are both Irish and are both the same age,
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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.
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I don't know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
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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.'
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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.
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I think one of those comes around once in every career, that type of role. I play a character called Kitten Brady, who everyone knows is a transvestite. That's part of it, but it's not the whole story.
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I was excited. I thought with his ability to manipulate an audience and a smart piece of writing, we could really have something.
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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.
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