Billy Crudup
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And I realized I didn't want to be a model.
I didn't want to wear somebody else's clothes.
I was just interested in acting.
I definitely didn't want to talk about myself.
Or talk about my personal experience because how am I going to be able to convince people that I'm somebody else if they know all this shit about me?
And I'm also not that good.
So, you know, that was a conscious strategy on my part, much to the chagrin of many people I worked with.
No, no, we already talked about that.
I was not unambitious in my work.
People would say sometimes, oh, you don't want to be a star.
I was like, did you see Watchmen?
You think I was not trying with Dr. Manhattan?
I mean, I wasn't demurring.
Almost Famous wasn't meant to be a niche drama.
It's just that it didn't work.
You know, Almost Famous lost money.
And I was number one on the call sheet.