Billy Crudup

Correctly.

I'm going to be responsible.

Yeah.

I wanted to pay for my applications, you know, $50 fee here, $100 fee there.

I wanted to drive to the auditions.

I wanted to get in on my own merits if I got in anywhere.

When I got into school at NYU, that felt like an enormous accomplishment in the way that Carolina did not feel like an enormous accomplishment, even though I still had to survive at school and do as well as I could.

So that was a big part of me establishing my own sense of self.

You were in the Tisch School?

Yes, it's called the grad acting program because the undergraduate is the Tisch School and they're all a part of Tisch.

But the undergraduate has three or four separate acting components.

And the graduate program is a conservatory style program where there's 20 people in each class and you have three years and you just spend day and night.

studying voice, speech, text, movement.

It's not true.

That is not what you do with the Alexander Technique.

It's just a way to find a neutral spot so you can process air through your lungs and create a good, reliable sound with your voice.

A nice, consistent voice.

And listen to his voice.

That's one of the best.

Breathe into each other's mouths.