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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

I always end up taking people that are morally ambiguous.
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Ambiguous Ends People
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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Done Made Thinking
I don’t want to expose the intricacies of my work so people can understand how I did it.
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Intricacy People Want
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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Acting Heart Real Thrilling
All you really have when you’re acting is the confidence and your ability to manage and tell a story by creating a character.
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Ability Acting Character
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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Self Thinking Wish
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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Actor Night Parent Play Regardless
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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Anything Character Energy Want
When 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.
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Intense Kind Opinion
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 in.
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People Real Truth
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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Advertising Film Pay
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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Fantasy Life Our Society
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.
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Attempts Audience Own Rock Star Yourself
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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People Play Stakes
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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Hero Thinking Wish
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.
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Big Fish Men Stories

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.

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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.

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