Cillian Murphy is an impeccable actor with blazing blue eyes, elegant personality and superb voice.

Cillian Murphy is one such actor who can get under the skin of almost all kinds of characters with equal conviction on screen. He, being one of the leading stars in both American as well as European film industries, always loves to experiment with the characters in a very unconventional manner. His best performances include '28 Days Later', 'Batman Begins', 'Breakfast on Pluto', 'The Wind That Shakes The Barley', 'Sunshine', 'Inception' etc. along with the BBC series 'Peaky Blinders'.

Here are some important quotes by Cillian Murphy:

"I personally think if something is not a challenge, then there's no point doing it, because you are not gonna learn much."

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

"You need to be as clean of a slate as you can be, as an actor. You have to try to be open to every experience."

"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 try not to think retrospectively. It’s important, as an artist, to look forward, always. I do try to take work that evolves some challenge. If you approach a piece of work and you’re going, ‘Yeah, yeah, I can do that,’ then that’s kind of a red flag."

"I’m Irish and very proud of being Irish, but as an actor, your extraction should be secondary, really. you should be able to embody whatever character it is, wherever the character comes from. That’s is always been important, for me. I’m an actor who is Irish, not an Irish actor."

"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."

"And, for any performer, to be able to go deep into character is fantastic. In film you only get to do that if you're the leading character. But in television you get 18 hours to really test the audience and take them to the edge of how far they will go with this character. I can step over this line and I love that."

"I never make a distinction between doing a film in Hollywood or doing a film independently. It's just the story. It's always the story for me. The constants are that it should challenge me and I shouldn't repeat myself."

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