Cillian Murphy

My whole career has been completely random and haphazard.

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.

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.

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?

I enjoy any chance to get in front of a microphone in a role. I'll do it.

It's embarrassing sometimes, the way actors or musicians sometimes get made untouchable.

It's only an advantage as an actor - looking younger than you are. If you can maintain 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.

I'd love to work in America, some of my favourite films come from America.

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

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.