Billy Crudup movie quotes

“I've killed people in plays, but no one asks me what it's like to kill people.”
Billy Crudup

“There was nothing stopping Michelle and me from having a baby except ourselves.”
Billy Crudup - FH

“Miracles by their definition are meaningless, only what can happen does happen.”
Billy Crudup - Jon Osterman

“- Henry: She deserves better than him.
- Rudy Holt: Now you're talking.
- Henry: Better than me, too.
- Rudy Holt: Yeah, but she doesn't know that yet.”

Billy Crudup - Henry
Tom Wilkinson - Rudy Holt

“- Henry: You'll be fine. We'll both be fine Rudy.
- Rudy Holt: That's life Henry.
- Henry: Yep.”
Billy Crudup - Henry
Tom Wilkinson - Rudy Holt

“No more pretending for him. He was completely and openly a mess. Meanwhile, the rest of us go on pretending to each other.”
Billy Crudup - FH

“A live human body and a deceased human body have the same number of particles. Structurally there's no difference.”
Billy Crudup - Jon Osterman

“- Lady Eboshi: What exactly are you here for?
- Ashitaka: To see with eyes unclouded by hate.”
Minnie Driver - Lady Eboshi
Billy Crudup - Ashitaka

“You know it? You know what I'm talking about? You know - you're like Princess shit! You know? Fairytales. You know what I'm saying? The million guys are after and you're blinded by your beauty kind of shit.”

Billy Crudup - Henry

“- Jon Osterman: What is this? Another ultimate weapon?
- Adrian Veidt: Yes. You could say that.”

Billy Crudup - Jon Osterman
Matthew Goode - Adrian Veidt

“- Fielding Pierce: I am so sick of having to apologize for being an American.
- Father Mileski: North American.
- Fielding Pierce: God, I'm so sorry. Yes, North American. But I can't help noticing that when people run to freedom they tend to wash up on North American shores. This country is till the best that we've been able to do in the whole...” (continue)(continue reading)
Billy Crudup - Fielding Pierce
John Carroll Lynch - Father Mileski

“- Sarah Williams: I don't want to watch you turn into a cog in their machine.
- Fielding Pierce: That's so fucking condescending. Sometimes cogs can make machines run a little but better.
- Sarah Williams: Sometimes yes. Mostly they turn in circles and wear out. Then they get replaced.”
Jennifer Lynn Connelly - Sarah Williams
Billy Crudup - Fielding Pierce

“I can only stir things counterclockwise, and I know that if I don't, something bad will happen. I take size eleven-and-a-half shoe. I don't have a favourite book. Oh, I don't drive or ride in cars. Statistically speaking, you have a 100% chance of being in an accident in your lifetime. They're death boxes. I give to Amnesty International on the...” (continue)(continue reading)

Billy Crudup - Henry

“- Maria Hughes: Why won't you play men?
- Ned Kynaston: Men aren't beautiful. What they do isn't beautiful either. Women do everything beautifully, especially when they die. Men feel far too much. Feeling ruins the effect. Feeling makes it ugly.”
Claire Danes - Maria Hughes
Billy Crudup - Ned Kynaston

“Will you believe me when I tell you that, there was kindness... in his heart. His left hand didn't know what his right hand was doin'. It's just that certain important connections had been burned through. If I opened up your head, an' ran a hot soldering iron around in your brain; I might turn you into someone like that.”
Billy Crudup - FH

“I am looking at the stars. They are so far away, and their light takes so long to reach us. All we ever see of stars is their old photographs.”
Billy Crudup - Jon Osterman

“A part doesn't belong to an actor; an actor belongs to a part.”
Billy Crudup - Ned Kynaston

“You know accuse me of whatever you want, I'm probably guilty of it... contributing to global warming, and killing a squirrel once, and using the word retarded, and occasionally misinterpreted bigotry, but don't, don't... don't don't don't don't don't accuse me of not liking you. Ok?”

Billy Crudup - Henry

“I know better than to argue romance with a French woman.”
Billy Crudup - Will Bloom

“Miracles. Events with astronomical odds of occurring, like oxygen turning into gold. I neglect that in human coupling, millions upon millions of cells compete to create life, for generation after generation until, finally, your mother loves a man and out of that contradiction, against unfathomable odds, it's you, only you, that emerged. To...” (continue)(continue reading)
Billy Crudup - Jon Osterman

“- FH: You're still alive?
- Bill: Are you kidding?
- FH: No.
- Bill: Well, that is too bad, because it makes you sound awful stupid asking if I'm alive, 'cause obviously I am.
- FH: Well, maybe I mean alive in a deeper sense. You could be talking, but still not be alive in a deeper sense.
- Bill: Well, there's no deeper shit than the kind we're...” (continue)(continue reading)

Billy Crudup - FH
Dennis Hopper - Bill

“They say that happy women make a happy village.”
Billy Crudup - Ashitaka

“You're, you're - you're the goddamn thing. You're, you're. I can't describe you... uhh, I don't, I don't write that kind of shit, I write... You know, the people who write, who write the real books, the love books, and the poems, and even those stupid little fucking novels with the hunky assholes on the cover...”

Billy Crudup - Henry

“Life is nothing but the echo of joy disappearing into the great chasm of misery.”
Billy Crudup - Henry

“I've never been good at finding things, I'm really good at losing things.”
Billy Crudup - Henry