Words matter. These are the best Killian Scott Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It’s terrible for people when they really love a book and there’s an adaptation and they don’t like it, because it’s almost like you have this personal connection to the original material.
I’ve always looked for roles that were far removed from me.
I did a play in school. Then Dramsoc became the centre of my universe.
I had a wonderful, an incredible dialect coach, Brendan Gunn, from Belfast, who has worked with Brad Pitt and Daniel Day Lewis, and me.
I mean, in all fairness, in the grand scheme of things, if the greatest inconvenience of my life is that sometimes people want a photo or a chat, then that’s extraordinarily lucky. It really bothers me when actors complain about it.
I am trundling in a good direction. I am curious to see how things will work out before I take myself off the tracks.
Anything that’s been useful to me as a person has been useful to me as an actor. Anything in the interest of your happiness will affect your work. The more comfortable you become in your own skin, the better you are as another identity.
Damnation’ and ‘Dublin Murders’ are the first lead roles I’ve gotten to do. The more time you spend in front of the camera, the more you begin to relax in front of it.
You’re always a bit nervous or apprehensive with something like ‘Love/Hate’ and the level of attention it gets.
Politics is real. It has an impact on people’s lives. It’s harder to quantify the impact art has. Personally, I oscillate between two extremes. Some days I think it’s very important. Other days I think it isn’t important at all.
I find it fascinating the things that capture people’s imagination.
I am Killian Murphy. One day, I realised I needed a new name. I was doing ‘Under Milk Wood’ and had 24 hours to come up with a new one.
When you’re a working actor you see a lot of scripts all the time, but to get to do something that’s really well written it’s a rare privilege.
The thing I learned from watching Iain Glen and Brendan Gleeson, and Aidan Gillen and Michael Fassbender when I worked with them, there’s a huge element of leading something. It’s the atmosphere and dynamic you’re creating on set.
If you’re lucky enough to find success at a job that you love then I don’t think you have much right to complain, to be honest.
I really am not overly comfortable with attention to be honest. Paradoxically I’ve noticed this is a pretty common trait amongst actors. You like to let the work speak for you, I think.
What can often happen when doing accents is that you go too far to one extreme, so it becomes a caricature. It’s important to bring an accent back to a natural organic place so you’re still speaking like you would speak, just the sound is different. But your rhythms are not.
But acting had entered my world through older brothers. It was a basic thing: all that just looks cool.
