Billy Magnussen quotes

I have just gained a deeper and deeper respect for acting and the whole art of it because you're really trying to live a life and to do the best justification for it.
-- Billy Magnussen

#Art #Trying #Acting

It's one thing believing in yourself, it's another thing having other people believe in you, and that is the greatest gift, honestly.
-- Billy Magnussen

#Believe #People #Honestly

We were on As the World Turns together with Trevor Vaughn. We played brothers on the show. Our friendship started there. We would punch each other in the face, in the nuts, while we were acting. Our characters are supposed to hate each other, but we actually got along really, really well.
-- Billy Magnussen

#Brother #Hate #Character

I couldn't be more thankful to get my start on a soap opera. It was the hardest job I ever had. Got to practice in front of the camera, like, every day.
-- Billy Magnussen

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It's been TV and a lot of independent films. I'm so happy and blessed to have all these opportunities. But I'm also working on somebody else's project.
-- Billy Magnussen

#Blessed #Independent #Opportunity

Brit Marling smartest girl I've ever met. Hands down. Brilliant. Her story? She had a graduate degree from a top tier school and turned down a job with some big company. She went to LA, said she was going to be an actress. She wasn't getting auditions, so she started writing her own films.
-- Billy Magnussen

#Girl #Writing #School

A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.

In trying to avoid one sin I've committed another.

Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.

I try to be as courteous as possible and sometimes try to tell my fans that as much as I appreciate their support, there are times where I need to be able to have an uninterrupted dinner or not have to take a bunch of pictures or just be able to do some of the normal things.

I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.

I was lucky enough, when I was younger, to have the chance to do as much as possible, and I found what I wanted to do. I did swimming, gymnastics, kickboxing and the one that took off more than the others was acting.

I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.

I feel that one of the hardest things in acting is the way you need to switch your emotions.

Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.

Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage.