Killian Scott

“There are ways of staying under the radar here, and they're effective to a degree. But if you're an ambitious person and you're confident your career is moving in the direction you want it to, you know the attention is only going to become greater and greater.”

“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.”

“I did a play in school. Then Dramsoc became the centre of my universe.”

“Broadchurch' was very naturalistically shot, in many respects, whereas 'Dublin Murders' has a slightly heightened element cinematically, because there is a supernatural, ominous quality - particularly in the woods.”

“You're always a bit nervous or apprehensive with something like 'Love/Hate' and the level of attention it gets.”

“The most common experience in my life is rejection. I've done over 300 auditions. No amount of drama school training can prepare you for that, in theory.”

“But acting had entered my world through older brothers. It was a basic thing: all that just looks cool.”

“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.”

“I think when you're a fan of a book you do have your own little version of the characters and I hope that some people feel we are the versions they might have imagined.”

“I had to act with a wolf, which made me very uncomfortable! It still does. I think about it all the time!”

“Every time you play a different role with different actors in different locations, you're developing a greater level of comfort in the act of doing this, which is why you're getting better all the time.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 find it fascinating the things that capture people's imagination.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I had a wonderful, an incredible dialect coach, Brendan Gunn, from Belfast, who has worked with Brad Pitt and Daniel Day Lewis, and me.”

“Acting is very much my life, but acting is what I want to do so to be able to say that is a really fortunate thing.”