Billy Crudup

He was really a lovely person.

I liked being around him.

Huge dreamer.

There was no obstacle that couldn't be overcome.

Framed things a little differently, but that also meant he was kind of divorced from reality.

It also, I think, stemmed from his father being punitive towards him growing up.

My dad felt like he had hit the jackpot in order to be a success because my grandfather's way of loving was to toughen you up.

Every lunch with me started with, all right, what are you screwing up now?

Luckily, the list was long.

It didn't help, by the way, that my first semester I had a 1.7 GPA.

I had to learn a few things about college.

If you don't go to a class, you should probably drop it rather than taking the zero.

You know, you do that a couple of times.

Doesn't matter if you make A's in the other ones.

The average works out.

But my grandfather did that to my father growing up.

It planted the seed that my dad was never good enough.

So my dad had the inclination to pay him back with major success.

I think that was internally what was going on with my dad.

But that never happens to people, right?