You’re giving the audience in real time something authentic from yourself. As an actor, my bullshit meter was going off like crazy at my first attempts to find my own rock star.
BILLY CRUDUPYou’re giving the audience in real time something authentic from yourself. As an actor, my bullshit meter was going off like crazy at my first attempts to find my own rock star.
BILLY CRUDUPFrom here on out, I am only interested in what is real. Real people, real feelings, that’s it. That’s all I’m interested in.
BILLY CRUDUPWhen somebody on a professional scale says “you did it wrong,” it has a pretty intense impact. If you don’t have some kind of opposing force to say, “that’s all right, that’s their opinion,” or, “I may have screwed that one up but I’ll do better the next time,” then you’re screwed.
BILLY CRUDUPI feel the film companies should pay for proper advertising to see that the movie will sell, instead of putting it on our backs.
BILLY CRUDUPI 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 CRUDUPThat’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 CRUDUPI 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 CRUDUPI always end up taking people that are morally ambiguous.
BILLY CRUDUPAll you really have when you’re acting is the confidence and your ability to manage and tell a story by creating a character.
BILLY CRUDUPI 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 CRUDUPIf I had done ‘Titanic,’ it would have made, probably, $200,000 – worldwide. So I think my life would have been very, very similar.
BILLY CRUDUPI don’t want to expose the intricacies of my work so people can understand how I did it.
BILLY CRUDUPInterest 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.
BILLY CRUDUPMy 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 CRUDUPI don’t think actors should have to do anything but come in and act.
BILLY CRUDUPOne 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.
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