Billy Crudup Quotes

I don't think actors should have to do anything but come in and act.

Billy Crudup

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• The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Character
  • Thought
  • Short

• Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there, even on my team. It's really cool: you'll see so many different things.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Different
  • Team
  • Kind

• Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Live
  • Children
  • Ideas

• I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism, but that other voice never fled from me.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Poetry
  • Start
  • Ambition

• I'm quite confident with the way that I look but you find something else to focus on don't you if, I mean I, I have body issues that's my thing so you find something to focus on when you're a perfectionist, I think.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Think
  • Focus
  • Body

• If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Women
  • Change
  • Rules

• I have like 20 snap-up shirts in my closet, and I never, never would have thought before FNL would I have had that.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
  • Up
  • Like
  • Thought

• I've been dancing since I was seven, but I never really developed a regimen until I was on Broadway and responsible for a professional performance every night.

  

  Kate Levering
  • Night
  • Professional
  • Performance

• I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one.

  

  Gary Burton
  • Together
  • Hate
  • Musicians

• I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Good
  • Live
  • Art

• One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've experienced, without actually writing about yourself. I've given many of my experiences and perceptions to many of the characters in the book, but none of them is me.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Book
  • Know
  • Characters

• I like touring extensively because I think the more hours you spend onstage, the more you know who you are onstage.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Think
  • You
  • Know

• I'd wake up in the morning and I would think, 'Where am I?' I'd have to gather myself.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Myself

• When you're having conversations about actors, you realize these same conversations have happened about you. If you want to make a film for $5m, then you cast A, B and C, but if you want $20m, you won't be able to cast them, you need X, Y and Z.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Want
  • You
  • Realize

• I guess I'm drawn to artists and literary people and want to learn about them.

  

  Nancy Horan
  • People
  • Want
  • Learn

• One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.

  

  Ira Gershwin
  • Happy
  • Without
  • Others

• Oh, I love the kids more than any other age group. I hate to say that, but new life is with new kids, you know? They're the future. The sheer fact that they're young and eager, that's what makes them rule.

  

  Betsey Johnson
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Age

• We never will get a full situation of open transparency, but we should seek to bring forth the major concerns about injustice and suffering and dishonesty. This needs to come into the open or there will never be peace in the hearts of us violated.

  

  Beyers Naude
  • Suffering
  • Hearts
  • Transparency

• My dad said to always do what I loved and not worry about the money or anything, because if I do what I love, then the money will come.

  

  Ansel Elgort
  • Money
  • Dad
  • Worry

• It was difficult to find my way into 'I Am Abraham,' to feel confident enough to inhabit Lincoln's persona. I began with a prologue in a neutral voice, wrote of Lincoln at the White House with a sly young reporter quizzing him about his humble origins.

  

  Jerome Charyn
  • House
  • Humble

• I don't think actors should have to do anything but come in and act.

  

  Billy Crudup