Billy Crudup Quotes
I put a lot of time and energy and thought behind what I do and the characters that I create, and I don't want to do anything peripheral that is going to make an audience see me up there on the screen rather than who I'm playing.
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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I hate competition.
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It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes to watch me on set, he think it's his set. He's always telling a production assistant, 'Can you get me five donuts?'
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I just have to concentrate on doing what I do.
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I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
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There are two sides to being pregnant. There is the beautiful, wonderful blessing side. The second side - it sucks!
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Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
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The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.
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People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.
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For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.
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When you're growing up, you realize you've got a lot of heavy things on your shoulders.
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My life is extremely full and wretchedly busy, and I feel that while my life drains energy from my work, my work in turn drains energy from my life. The result is, I am always playing catch-up spiritually. That is my thorn.
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I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.
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Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money.
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Those in power are blind devotees to private enterprise. They accept that degree of socialism implicit in the vast subsidies to the military-industrial-complex, but not that type of socialism which maintains public projects for the disemployed and the unemployed alike.
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I put a lot of time and energy and thought behind what I do and the characters that I create, and I don't want to do anything peripheral that is going to make an audience see me up there on the screen rather than who I'm playing.
