Crudup Quotes

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

Jonathan Tucker

#2. 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

#3. The word of God is full of assurance.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. My biggest dream in the world is for everyone to become vegetarian, so there won't be any more suffering.

Alicia Silverstone

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. The biggest trap in life consists in achieving illusions after years of hard work and realize that there's nothing there but an empty you.

Robin Sacredfire

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

Billy Crudup

#13. The days and nights come apart. I feel them corroding at the seams.

Markus Zusak

#14. 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

#15. You cannot see That which is the Seer of seeing; you cannot hear That which is the Hearer of hearing; you cannot think of That which is the Thinker of thought; you cannot know That which is the Knower of knowledge. This is your Self, that is within all; everything else but This is perishable.

Anonymous

#16. A Jew's undoing is never his own, it is God's; his rehabilitation is never his own, it is a Christian's.

Djuna Barnes

#17. Catherine thought Simon was in the locket, and in heaven, and with them still. Lucas hoped she didn't expect him to be happy about having so many Simons to contend with.

Michael Cunningham

#18. Do you dwell on everyone's junk when you meet them? Like, all you do all day long is think about dicks and janes? Is that your thing, Bailey? You can't stop thinking about what's in everyone's pants?

Brie Spangler

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

Billy Crudup

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

Billy Crudup

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. Faint is the bliss, that never past thro' pain.

Colley Cibber

#24. 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

#25. The only successful philosophies and religions are the ones that flatter us, whether in the name of progress or of hell. Damned or not, man experiences an absolute need to be at the heart of everything.

Emil Cioran

#26. [Addiction's] not about placating the bad dog - it's about feeding the good dog. You still have to feed the bad dog, but only enough so that the ASPCA doesn't bring you up on charges.

Robert Downey Jr.

#27. The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.

Alexandra David-Neel

#28. The holy have done more damage to this world than the devil ever could.

Andrea Gibson

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

Billy Crudup

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

Billy Crudup

#31. The most valuable real estate for a man is the woman's mind.
Many bloody battles have been fought for her mind space!

Sanjai Velayudhan

#32. Being too happy is bad for you. 8 on 1 10-scale is just right. Eg. cancer patients are more likely to survive if they're at an 8 instead of 9 or 10.

Ed Diener

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

Billy Crudup