Billy Crudup movie quotes

“- Samuel Pepys: Your performance of the man stuff seemed so right, so true. I suppose I felt it was the most real in the play.
- Ned Kynaston: You know why the man stuff seemed so real? Because I'm pretending. You see a man through the mirror of a woman through the mirror of a man. You take one of those reflecting glasses away it doesn't work.”
Hugh Bonneville - Samuel Pepys
Billy Crudup - Ned Kynaston

“- Ed Bloom - Senior: Havin' a kid changes everything. There's burping, the midnight feeding, and the changing.
- Will Bloom: You do any of that?
- Ed Bloom - Senior: No. But I hear it's terrible. Then you spend years trying to corrupt and mislead this child, fill his head with nonsense, and still it turns out perfectly fine.”
Albert Finney - Ed Bloom - Senior
Billy Crudup - Will Bloom

“- Rudy Holt: You know what life is?
- Henry: Life is a horrible little giggle in the midst of a forced death march towards hell.”
Tom Wilkinson - Rudy Holt
Billy Crudup - Henry

“- Fielding Pierce: I want to be the President. Why are you smiling?
- Sarah Williams: Because you mean it.”

Billy Crudup - Fielding Pierce
Jennifer Lynn Connelly - Sarah Williams

“- E.R. Nurse: Patient complains of knife in head.
- FH: Stabbing headache?”
Yvette Mercedes - E.R. Nurse
Billy Crudup - FH

“You're like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny combined - just as charming, and just as fake.”

Billy Crudup - Will Bloom

“I can endure more pain than anyone you've ever met. That's why I can beat anyone I've ever met.”
Billy Crudup - Steve Prefontaine

“- Sarah Williams: It is so infuriating loving you sometimes!
- Fielding Pierce: Well, the feeling's mutual.”
Jennifer Lynn Connelly - Sarah Williams
Billy Crudup - Fielding Pierce

“- Lady Eboshi: Once the forest has been cleared and the wolves wiped out, this desolate place will become the richest land in the world, and Princess Mononoke will become human.
- Ashitaka: Princess Mononoke?
- Lady Eboshi: Princess of the spirits of ghouls, beasts, and ancient gods. The wolf stole her soul, and now she lives to kill me.”
Minnie Driver - Lady Eboshi
Billy Crudup - Ashitaka

- William Miller: Do you have to be depressed to write a sad song? Do you have to be in love to write a love song? Is a song better when it really happened to you? Like "Love Thing", where did you write that and who was it about?
- Russell Hammond: When did you get so professional?
Patrick Fugit - William Miller
Billy Crudup - Russell Hammond

“- Doug Holt: I'm not like you, Jacey. I don't want to be.
- Jacey Holt: I'm sorry.
- Doug Holt: Yeah, you are.”
Joaquin Phoenix - Doug Holt
Billy Crudup - Jacey Holt

“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.”
Billy Crudup - Will Bloom

“The thing about Harvard for somebody from the working class like us - we come from a working class background - is a terrible sense of isolation, of aloneness there.”
Billy Crudup - Fielding Pierce

“- Co-ed: I'm engaged.
- Jacey Holt: So am I.
- Co-ed: You are?
- Jacey Holt: Sure. I'm engaged in conversation with you.”
Julie Benz - Co-ed
Billy Crudup - Jacey Holt

“I don't want to win unless I know I've done my best, and the only way I know how to do that is to run out front, flat out until I have nothing left. Winning any other way is chicken-shit.”
Billy Crudup - Steve Prefontaine

“- Sarah Williams: You can't be everything to me.
- Fielding Pierce: I want to be.
- Sarah Williams: Oh, dear. I love that you said that.”
Jennifer Lynn Connelly - Sarah Williams
Billy Crudup - Fielding Pierce

“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.”
Billy Crudup - Russell Hammond

“All these... weirdos, and me... getting a little better every day right in the middle of 'em. I had never known... I had never even imagined for a heartbeat that... there might be a place in the world for people like us.”
Billy Crudup - FH

Think of being curled up and floating in the darkness. Even if you could think, even if you had an imagination, would you ever imagine its opposite, this miraculous world? The Asian Taoists called it "10,000 Things". And if the darkness just got darker and then you were dead, what would you care? How would you even know the difference?
Billy Crudup - FH

“- Alice Abbott: I'm married.
- Jacey Holt: I thought you were getting a divorce.
- Alice Abbott: I am, but it's not final yet.”
Joanna Going - Alice Abbott
Billy Crudup - Jacey Holt

“I'm tired and I don't see things the way that I used to. Everything is fucking strange and it's all completely out of control and I'm frightened. And maybe if you all could give me some real help. Not your pity or generosity but some help. If I don't say this now I may never say it. Everything is going very fast. It's completely out of control....” (continue)(continue reading)
Billy Crudup - Fielding Pierce

“What I want is for the humans and the forest to live in peace!”
Billy Crudup - Ashitaka

“- William Miller: So Russell... what do you love about music?
- Russell Hammond: To begin with, everything.”
Patrick Fugit - William Miller
Billy Crudup - Russell Hammond

“- San: Even if all the trees grow back, it won't be his forest anymore. The Forest Spirit is dead.
- Ashitaka: Never. He is life itself. He isn't dead, San. He is here with us now, telling us, it's time for both of us to live.”
Claire Danes - San
Billy Crudup - Ashitaka

“- Lady Eboshi: Stay here. Help me kill the Forest Spirit, Ashitaka.
- Ashitaka: You would do that? Kill the very heart of the forest?
- Lady Eboshi: Without that ancient god, the animals here would be nothing but dumb beasts once again.”
Minnie Driver - Lady Eboshi
Billy Crudup - Ashitaka