Billy Crudup

I am not the most objective viewer of my own work. So I have different thoughts about my work. ”

I confess, I'm one of those actors who finds it incredibly hard to divorce myself and my performance from the work itself. ”

I avoid watching other people's versions of films or plays that I work on. ”

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

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. ”

I went to acting school, and there were twenty other actors in my class who were exceptional. It's hard for anybody to get work. When I was trying to get jobs, I felt a responsibility to be respectful of the opportunities and take challenging things that could be interesting both for me as an actor and for the audience. ”

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. ”

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. ”