Quotes from Cillian Murphy

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

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

I remember being 18 and being fed up with everything - fed up with society, fed up with the political system, fed up with myself - and then you kind of go, 'Actually, this voting thing is amazing,' because you have a chance to change it, right?

For me, it's about being at home and living a life. Taking the dog for a walk, doing the shopping, emptying the dishwasher, going for a run.

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

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

I like being at home with my music and my books. I've done all the partying, I've done enough partying for four or five people as a young fella. But now I like the quiet life.

I loved living in London in my 20s and 30s, but after a while, you kind of go, 'Right, is this it? Is this it for the rest of my days? Or is there some other possibility?'

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.

The color grading in 'Peaky' is a huge, huge element of the show's distinctive style, you know?

I've always been an actor who works in every medium - I've worked in theater and film and television - I've never seen any difference between the three.

My whole career has been completely random and haphazard.

That time, making 'Disco Pigs,' was kind of the most important period of my life. The people I met there remain my closest friends.

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

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.

I had a really good time in my 20s and 30s.

Men and women are custodians of this society, and we both decide what's going to happen for our future. I feel that very, very strongly.

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.

I will always love film, the romance of film, sitting in the darkened room with strangers and watching a story for two hours - that will always remain and never be eroded by television.

I've said this before: myself and Tommy Shelby, he's the most unlike-me character I have ever played.

I think you fall out of love with theater while you're doing your eighth show of your eighteenth week and your body is saying, "Please make this end."

I think for me with theater, I need to take a break and then fall in love with it again. And then go do it again.

I don't think they'd ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I'd love to play Chuck Baker

A director, I forget who, told me that it takes 30 years to make an actor. And I believe that. You have to learn your craft, learn your trade - and also you have to live a life and experience things.