Billy Crudup – Quotes

I feel the film

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

I have never indulged

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. Billy Crudup

That’s what I always

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. Billy Crudup

A man tells his

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

I don’t think actors

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

I wish I could

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. Billy Crudup

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. Billy Crudup

I put a lot

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. Billy Crudup

You have to let

You have to let go of stuff when you act for a while. You stay too attached to things that have worked or haven’t worked, it kind of makes it harder for you to move forward. So I try to concentrate on the experience that I have and then let the public expression of it … Read more

One of the great

One of the great tools we use in acting is the idea of immediacy, that the audience gets to see you witness something apparently for the first time, so you create a lot of tools to kind of trick yourself into making it appear something is happening for the first time. Billy Crudup