Zitat des Tages von Billy Crudup:
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.
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.
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.
Every time I do a movie, I think it's going to be a huge hit.
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.
Everyone covering 'Stage Beauty' asks me: 'What's it like to wear a dress?'
My limits are limitless. I find my limits every time I act.
I don't want to expose the intricacies of my work so people can understand how I did it.
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.
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.
If I had done 'Titanic,' it would have made, probably, $200,000 - worldwide. So I think my life would have been very, very similar.
I wish I had more of the hero gene, but I don't think I'd be very good at playing one.
I feel the film companies should pay for proper advertising to see that the movie will sell, instead of putting it on our backs.
I don't think actors should have to do anything but come in and act.
I always end up taking people that are morally ambiguous.
I never felt that I was typecast, but I was concerned about it. I certainly made an effort to take as many parts in theater and film that resisted that. If you only learn how to act a certain kind of role, it is very difficult to grow as an actor.
I confess, I'm one of those actors who finds it incredibly hard to divorce myself and my performance from the work itself.
Acting is an expression of imagination. No firsthand knowledge is necessary.
I avoid watching other people's versions of films or plays that I work on.
One of the difficulties you run into is that acting and celebrity are so closely intertwined. People make careers out of being charismatic personalities. It's one of those things that people have come to expect from actors. Personalities that don't change from role to role. I don't want it that way.
