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

- Billy Crudup

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, …

- Billy Crudup

Being fired is something... You have to really want to be an actor after you go through something like that. Because the level of self-doubt and inse…

- Billy Crudup

All you really have when you're acting is the confidence and your ability to manage and tell a story by creating a character.

- Billy Crudup

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

I always end up taking people that are morally ambiguous.

- Billy Crudup

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 w…

- Billy Crudup

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

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

- Billy Crudup