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Billy Crudup Biography

William Gaither Crudup (/ˈkruːdəp/; born July 8, 1968) is an American actor. He is known for supporting roles in films including Almost Famous, Big Fish, Mission: Impossible III, Watchmen, Public Enemies, Spotlight, and Alien: Covenant, as well as lead roles in films including Without Limits, Dedication, and the animated film Princess Mononoke. He appeared in the 2017 superhero film Justice League as Doctor Henry Allen.

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My parents were really encouraging. But I had to teach them the proper way you respond to an actor after seeing a play - regardless of whether you like their performance you tell them how great they are because they have to go on again the next night.

Encouraging, Night, Parent, Play, Seeing, Way

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 insecurity that creeps into your psyche is monumental.

Actor, Creeps, Insecurity, Level, Like

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

Thinking, Should Have, Actors, Act, Come

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.

Defer, Say, Self, Thinking, Wish

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 what it's like to kill people.

Certain, Kill, Mandate, People, Play, Stakes

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.

Feelings, Interested, People, Real, Truth

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.

Audience, Character, Create, Energy, Thought, Want

A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him, and in that way he becomes immortal.

Big Fish, Live, Man, Men, Stories, Times

You can find the richness in any moment, even the most seemingly bleak. To try to do a movie about that was a joyful experience. So actually, it was really the context of it that made the experience so worthwhile, rather than the actual subject matter, if that makes sense.

Actual, Experience, Joyful, Matter, Moments, Trying

I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy.

Fantasy, Life, Life Is, Our Society, Relevant

If I had done 'Titanic,' it would have made, probably, $200,000 - worldwide. So I think my life would have been very, very similar.

200000, Done, Made, Similar, Thinking, Titanic

I don't want to expose the intricacies of my work so people can understand how I did it.

Expose, Intricacies, Intricacy, People, Understand, Want

I always end up taking people that are morally ambiguous.

Ambiguous, Ends, People, Taking

That's what I always enjoyed about acting, the real adrenalin rush. My heart - still before I go on stage - crashing out of my chest. That's thrilling to me.

Acting, Adrenalin, Heart, Real, Rush

One of the great tools we use in acting is the idea of immediacy, that the audience gets to see you witness something apparently for the first time, so you create a lot of tools to kind of trick yourself into making it appear something is happening for the first time.

Acting, First Time, Idea, Kind, Making, Trick

I wish I had more of the hero gene, but I don't think I'd be very good at playing one.

Good, Hero, Playing, Think, Thinking, Wish

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, "that's all right, that's their opinion," or, "I may have screwed that one up but I'll do better the next time," then you're screwed.

Force, Intense, Kind, Opinion, Opposing