One of the things an actor tries to access is immediacy, so that you feel like you’re experiencing it for the first time. But when you’re playing a character who knows what’s going to happen and can’t stop himself to reacting although he knows he can’t stop himself from reacting, there’s a whole separate set of things to consider. Billy Crudup Read Quote
One of the difficulties you run into is that acting and celebrity are so closely intertwined. People make careers out of being charismatic personalities. It’s one of those things that people have come to expect from actors. Personalities that don’t change from role to role. I don’t want it that way. Billy Crudup Read Quote
Los Angeles doesn’t have as vital a theatre as New York does. And that’s something that really interests me. Billy Crudup Read Quote
You have to deal with rejection at every stage, whether you audition for the part and don’t get it, you get the part and it gets terrible reviews, or it gets great reviews but then nobody sees it. Billy Crudup Read Quote
The characters that I’m typically drawn to are sensitive men who are experiencing some sense of identity crisis or growth in their life that they don’t know how to overcome. Billy Crudup Read Quote
I am not the most objective viewer of my own work. So I have different thoughts about my work. Billy Crudup Read Quote
I confess, I’m one of those actors who finds it incredibly hard to divorce myself and my performance from the work itself. Billy Crudup Read Quote
I think one of the things that people take for granted when they watch a film is the actors have to exhibit an extraordinary amount of force to block out the stuff that isn’t a part of their reality. And when the audience sees it, they’re seeing everything the actor isn’t seeing. Billy Crudup Read Quote
