Billy Crudup Quotes

• That’s what I always enjoyed about acting, the real adrenalin rush. My heart – still before I go on stage – crashing out of my chest. That’s thrilling to me.

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• My parents were really encouraging. But I had to teach them the proper way you respond to an actor after seeing a play – regardless of whether you like their performance you tell them how great they are because they have to go on again the next night.

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• My limits are limitless. I find my limits every time I act.

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• Interest in certain themes doesn’t mandate a personal stake or personal experience of those themes. I’ve killed people in plays, but no one asks me what it’s like to kill people.

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• If I had done ‘Titanic,’ it would have made, probably, $200,000 – worldwide. So I think my life would have been very, very similar.

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• I wish I had more of the hero gene, but I don’t think I’d be very good at playing one.

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• I wish I could say that when I didn’t agree with a director I defer to him, but I think sometimes I’m a little self-righteous.

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• I put a lot of time and energy and thought behind what I do and the characters that I create, and I don’t want to do anything peripheral that is going to make an audience see me up there on the screen rather than who I’m playing.

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• I have never indulged our society’s misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy.

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• I feel the film companies should pay for proper advertising to see that the movie will sell, instead of putting it on our backs.

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• I don’t want to expose the intricacies of my work so people can understand how I did it.

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• I don’t think actors should have to do anything but come in and act.

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• I always end up taking people that are morally ambiguous.

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• Every time I do a movie, I think it’s going to be a huge hit.

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Billy Crudup (14)

Birth:	8th July, 1968
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

Billy Crudup was born in Manhasset, New York. He is an American actor of film and stage. He is known for his roles as the guitarist Russell Hammond in Almost Famous and Will Bloom in Big Fish. He also starred in the 2007 romantic comedy film Dedication, alongside Mandy Moore. In 2009, he appeared as Doctor Manhattan in the film Watchmen and as J. Edgar Hoover in the film Public Enemies. Crudup also has experience in voice acting, having voiced the English version of the character Ashitaka from the Studio Ghibli animated film, Princess Mononoke.

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