When you're in pajamas that are sagging in the ass because you've got a battery pack that's weighing them down, and covered in 2,000 LEDs, and your face has 150 black dots on it, and you're probably standing in six-inch heels, it is a big challenge to imagine that you're the master of the universe when the rest of your cast members are laughing their ass off at you. So there's no question that there was a very difficult task that I had, but it wasn't living up to somebody else's expectations of the story. I was just trying to do the screenplay that was written.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
I always end up taking people that are morally ambiguous. - Billy Crudup
I always end up taking people that are morally ambiguous.
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…
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, …
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
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…
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