Billy Crudup Quotes

It's not that I don't want to be famous. It's just that I don't feel like the burden of responsibility on selling a film should be on the actors.

Billy Crudup

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• And also, I know I have this responsibility or mission to show people, to encourage them to live their dream, too.

  

  Bai Ling
  • People
  • Live
  • Dream

• If you're famous, you're not free.

  

  Tadanobu Asano
  • Free
  • You
  • Famous

• When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Time
  • Responsibility
  • Justice

• I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.

  

  Wendy Cope
  • Never
  • Famous
  • More

• I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • People
  • Writing
  • Political

• I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • People
  • English
  • Intelligence

• You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Me
  • Famous
  • Seems

• Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Power
  • Responsibility
  • Organization

• All the things that most kids hated, I loved. I loved that things were asked of me and that, much to my surprise, I was able to do them. I loved the 10 o'clock bedtime. I loved the responsibility.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Kids
  • Me
  • Responsibility

• The most common form of giantism is a condition called acromegaly, and acromegaly is caused by a benign tumor on your pituitary gland that causes an overproduction of human growth hormone. And throughout history, many of the most famous giants have all had acromegaly.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • History
  • Growth
  • Famous

• If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Power
  • City
  • Responsibility

• Strauss' water activities, which highlight both its social responsibility and commitment to the environment, meet a genuine need of people around the world today.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • People
  • World
  • Today

• The famous convention of 1787 met in Philadelphia to define the additional powers needed to enable Congress to do its job effectively. Instead, the convention proposed a brand new national government.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Job
  • Government
  • Famous

• I see it as a responsibility of mine to teach others.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • Responsibility
  • See
  • Teach

• I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.

  

  Randy Owen
  • Time
  • Music
  • Writing

• I got the famous Oprah hug!

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Famous
  • Got
  • Hug

• I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Faith
  • Die
  • Famous

• The first time I went to Johnny Depp's house in LA is when I realized what I was getting myself into. I knew he was famous, but I didn't really know what that entailed.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Time
  • House
  • Myself

• The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Life
  • World
  • Art

• I've always wanted to do a world creation story and visually create this amazing, incredible, magical kingdom.

  

  James Wan
  • World
  • Amazing

• My first job was in a nursing home - a terrible place in retrospect. It was in an old house, and the residents were so lonely. People rarely visited them. I only stayed there a couple of months, but it made a strong impression on me.

  

  Kim Edwards
  • People
  • Home
  • Job

• That would be a good public service announcement for Nickelodeon: 'Hi, this is Bob Saget. Don't fuck that shit. Stay in school. And read!'

  

  Bob Saget
  • Good
  • School
  • Service

• I've actually become much, much dumber through being married and having these children. I find that I'm not half as sharp that I once was. I can't even help them with their 4th and 5th grade vocabulary and math work at this point.

  

  Patrick Warburton
  • Work
  • Children
  • Help

• It's not that I don't want to be famous. It's just that I don't feel like the burden of responsibility on selling a film should be on the actors.

  

  Billy Crudup
  • Responsibility
  • Famous