Billy Crudup movie quotes

“My limits are limitless.”
Billy Crudup

“- Sarah Williams: So few people get what they want. And the ones they do aren't really the lucky ones anyway.
- Fielding Pierce: They're not? Who are?
- Sarah Williams: The ones that do what they are meant to.”
Jennifer Lynn Connelly - Sarah Williams
Billy Crudup - Fielding Pierce

“A woman playing a woman? Where's the trick in that?”
Billy Crudup - Ned Kynaston

“- The Journalist: Most writers want to be famous.
- Jackie Kennedy: You want to be famous?
- The Journalist: No, I'm fine as I am.
- Jackie Kennedy: You should prepare yourself, this article will bring you a great deal of attention.
- The Journalist: Ah. In that case, any advice for me?
- Jackie Kennedy: Yes. Don't marry the president.”

Billy Crudup - The Journalist
Natalie Portman - Jackie Kennedy

“- John: I can see how you might forget. We were just something for you and your friends to play with.
- Tommy: It's not that easy for us to forget... you gave us so much more to remember.”
Ron Eldard - John
Billy Crudup - Tommy

“- Mary Marckx: Do you believe in God?
- Steve Prefontaine: I believe in myself.”
Monica Potter - Mary Marckx
Billy Crudup - Steve Prefontaine

“I didn't mean it when I compared you to our waitress. I was only trying to hurt you. I could've been meaner about your looks, and what I would've said would have made you cry.”

Billy Crudup - Henry

“The existence of life is a highly overrated phenomenon.”
Billy Crudup - Jon Osterman

“Do you believe that I'm going into politics so I can become a corrupt son of a bitch who sells electrodes to the Chilean secret police?”
Billy Crudup - Fielding Pierce

“They claim their labors are to build a heaven, yet their heaven is populated by horrors. Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. A clock without a craftsman. It's too late. Always has been, always will be. Too late.”
Billy Crudup - Dr. Manhattan

“You left your mark on this country, Mrs. Kennedy. These past few days, that the story. Losing a president is like... It's like losing a father. And you were a mother to all of us, and that's a very good story.”
Billy Crudup - The Journalist

“Have you ever heard a joke so many times you've forgotten why it's funny? And then you hear it again and suddenly it's new. You remember why you loved it in the first place.”
Billy Crudup - Will Bloom

“- Henry: I've spent my whole life... wanting something... and doing my very best not to find it. Never even going near the places it might be... And suddenly, I've got the goddamn thing practically chained around my neck.
- Lucy: What are you talking about?
- Henry: You.”
Billy Crudup - Henry
Mandy Moore - Lucy

“- San: Ashitaka, you mean so much to me, but I can't forgive the humans for what they've done.
- Ashitaka: I understand. You'll live in the forest, and I'll help rebuild Irontown.”
Claire Danes - San
Billy Crudup - Ashitaka

“It's the hardest thing in the world to believe in something, if you do it's a miracle.”
Billy Crudup - Steve Prefontaine

“- Sacha Pfeiffer: We understand you settled several cases against the church.
- Eric Macleish: I can't discuss that.
- Sacha Pfeiffer: Are there any records of any of these settlements?
- Eric Macleish: No.”
Rachel McAdams - Sacha Pfeiffer
Billy Crudup - Eric Macleish

“- Fielding Pierce: I risk throwing away everything that I've worked for. This way eventually, I can make some real substantial changes without throwing away my life on some ultimately meaningless gesture.
- Sarah Williams: Sometimes, meaningless gestures are all we have.”
Billy Crudup - Fielding Pierce
Jennifer Lynn Connelly - Sarah Williams

“- Laurie Jupiter: The most powerful thing in the universe... still just a puppet.
- Jon Osterman: We are all puppets.”
Malin Akerman - Laurie Jupiter
Billy Crudup - Jon Osterman

“- Ed Bloom - Senior: What do you want? Who do you want me to be?
- Will Bloom: Just yourself. Good, bad, everything. Just show me who you are for once.”
Albert Finney - Ed Bloom - Senior
Billy Crudup - Will Bloom

“This is what hatred looks like! This is what it does when it catches hold of you! It's eating me alive, and very soon it will kill me! Fear and anger only make it grow faster!”

Billy Crudup - Ashitaka

“I'd like to work it out so that at the end, it's a pure guts race. If it is, I'm the only one who can win it.”
Billy Crudup - Steve Prefontaine

“Okay, uh, before we can, uh... work effectively with one another, I think we should be comfortable. So, ten minutes, okay? Then - then work. Okay? Go. Okay, I'll start. Uh, I hate my mother. I hate my goddamn dead father more. Rudy was the only friend I ever had. I had a girlfriend once who I used to like to masturbate to more than have sex...” (continue)(continue reading)

Billy Crudup - Henry

“- Laurie Jupiter: Everyone will die!
- Jon Osterman: And the universe will not even notice.”
Malin Akerman - Laurie Jupiter
Billy Crudup - Jon Osterman

“Life is nothing but the occasional burst of laughter rising above the interminable wail of grief.”
Billy Crudup - Henry

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