Billy Crudup

I had an enormous safety net.

I mean, when you're starting out, if you can bank on 20 grand, 50 grand, whatever it is a year, your life opens up creatively.

You don't have to take those jobs.

You don't have to do seven-year contracts or the marketing.

You just work your six months at a time, try to keep yourself employed, stay in the game, take the good parts that you can.

But I'm telling you, by year 10, I could walk in, do 20 spots in about 20 minutes.

It's actually one of the greatest.

It became a cultural phenom.

I occasionally would be invited to these charity events, be like a golf event, because I played golf when I was growing up and I like competing at anything.

So I would show up at these charity events and I'd walk up to the foursome and I'd say, hi, I'm Billy Crudup.

I'm your celebrity fifth man on the team.

And inevitably I get, no, you're not.

And I'd say, well, I think this is group number 40.

He's like, I just paid 10 grand for goose gossage.

Who the fuck are you?

And I was like, nah.

I'd have the MasterCard in my bag.

So I'd just wait until like the third or fourth hole after I'd had a birdie or something and helped the team.

I'd go, so you guys don't like theater?

You don't get to see a lot of theater?