Billy Crudup Quotes

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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Acting First
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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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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Made
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
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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Real
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
I don’t want to expose the intricacies of my work so people can understand how I did it.
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Intricacy
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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Stakes
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 Stories
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 Real Thrilling

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