Top 31 Billy Crudup Quotes

#1. I always end up taking people that are morally ambiguous.

Billy Crudup

#2. Very possible! Possible, indeed. Maybe even probable, which, as you know if you study your arithmetic,can happen more often than possible. In other words, probable is more possible than possible. - Bubo

Kathryn Lasky

#3. I love the challenge of playing characters forced on life-changing emotional journeys. To work on a project with Billy Crudup and Sam Rockwell is just a dream come true.

Douglas Booth

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

Billy Crudup

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

Billy Crudup

#6. I can tell you the actor who I admire the most. Billy Crudup. Do you know who he is? He's awesome.

Jonathan Tucker

#7. It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away.

Jim Cooper

#8. Every chip of her being slid into place, into the image of a lost world. The boy discovering it. The girl who sees it spark and flare, and understands, now, what she feels. She realizes that she has felt this for a long time.

Marie Rutkoski

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. Hardly any animal can look as deeply disappointed as a dog to whom one says "no."

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

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

Billy Crudup

#13. Declaring victory without war .. the belief that India gave up the option of war under American pressure is totally wrong.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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

Billy Crudup

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

Billy Crudup

#16. There is no perfect solution to depression, nor should there be. And odd as this may sound we should be glad of that. It keeps us human.

Lesley Hazleton

#17. Whatever happened to "Ia, Ia, Cthulu fthtagn"? ... No one has a sense of style anymore
-Harry Dresden

Jim Butcher

#18. We do not worry about being respected in towns through which we pass. But if we are going to remain in one for a certain time, we do worry. How long does this time have to be?

Blaise Pascal

#19. 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.

Billy Crudup

#20. You'd be surprised how much fun you can have sober. When you get the hang of it.

James Pinckney Miller

#21. 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

#22. 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.

Billy Crudup

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. I think writing is a part-time career, because otherwise you get a little stale, maybe even self-indulgent, when you have to fill the hours with sentences. I don't think, if I wrote 12 hours a day, my work would be much better.

Cynthia Voigt

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

Billy Crudup

#27. Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed ...

Francis Bacon

#28. 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

#29. It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but mattering way, how to live.

Robert B. Parker

#30. 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

#31. Do you ever think you might be a different species of human, knitted out of raw DNA in a laboratory like in The Island of Doctor Moreau, and then turned loose to see if you can pass yourself off as normal or not?

David Mitchell

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