When you get many opportunities early on, and you have people who have been working for a while counting on you, you have to at least pretend that you know what you're doing. So any actor that's pretending, you start to develop philosophies. Without years and years of experience, you kind of go with an attitude that you know what you're doing. And so I think right around that time, I was kind of at the peak of rigidly thinking that I knew how to work in film in a way that I wanted to. Cameron was extremely patient and generous with me.
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
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 wish I had more of the hero gene, but I don't think I'd be very good at playing one. - Billy Crudup
I wish I had more of the hero gene, but I don't think I'd be very good at playing one.
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
All you really have when you're acting is the confidence and your ability to manage and tell a story by creating a character.
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
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.
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
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.
I always end up taking people that are morally ambiguous. - Billy Crudup
I always end up taking people that are morally ambiguous.
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
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, …
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
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…
I don't want to expose the intricacies of my work so people can understand how I did it. - Billy Crudup
I don't want to expose the intricacies of my work so people can understand how I did it.
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