Billy Crudup

I wish I could say that when I didn't agree with a director I defer to him, but I think sometimes I'm…

— Billy Crudup

When you're in pajamas that are sagging in the ass because you've got a battery pack that's weighing them down, and covered…

— Billy Crudup

I always end up taking people that are morally ambiguous.

— Billy Crudup

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

— Billy Crudup

From here on out, I am only interested in what is real. Real people, real feelings, that's it. That's all I'm interested…

— Billy Crudup

You can find the richness in any moment, even the most seemingly bleak. To try to do a movie about that was…

— Billy Crudup

When somebody on a professional scale says "you did it wrong," it has a pretty intense impact. If you don't have some…

— Billy Crudup

All you really have when you're acting is the confidence and your ability to manage and tell a story by creating a…

— Billy Crudup

That's what I always enjoyed about acting, the real adrenalin rush. My heart - still before I go on stage - crashing…

— Billy Crudup

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

— Billy Crudup

Performing as a musician is a lot different than performing as an actor. As an actor, you can hide behind the character…

— Billy Crudup

Interest in certain themes doesn't mandate a personal stake or personal experience of those themes. I've killed people in plays, but no…

— Billy Crudup

Being fired is something... You have to really want to be an actor after you go through something like that. Because the…

— Billy Crudup

I put a lot of time and energy and thought behind what I do and the characters that I create, and I…

— Billy Crudup

You have to let go of stuff when you act for a while. You stay too attached to things that have worked…

— Billy Crudup

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

— Billy Crudup

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

— Billy Crudup

If I had done 'Titanic,' it would have made, probably, $200,000 - worldwide. So I think my life would have been very,…

— Billy Crudup

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

— Billy Crudup

When you get many opportunities early on, and you have people who have been working for a while counting on you, you…

— Billy Crudup

One of the great tools we use in acting is the idea of immediacy, that the audience gets to see you witness…

— Billy Crudup

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

— Billy Crudup

I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that…

— Billy Crudup

My parents were really encouraging. But I had to teach them the proper way you respond to an actor after seeing a…

— Billy Crudup

A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him, and in that way…

— Billy Crudup