Top 22 Quotes & Sayings by Billy Magnussen

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Billy Magnussen.
Last updated on December 3, 2024.
Billy Magnussen

William Gregory Magnussen is an American actor. He has been featured in the films Into the Woods (2014), Birth of the Dragon (2016), Game Night (2018), and Aladdin (2019), and has had supporting television roles in Get Shorty (2017) and Maniac (2018). In 2021, Magnussen starred in the sci-fi series Made for Love on HBO Max and appeared in the films The Many Saints of Newark and No Time to Die.

I want to go base-jumping off Angel Falls and then canoeing down that river that goes east. That's what I really wanna do.
I really think you can manifest your dreams. You can manifest your destiny. If you want something hard enough and you're willing to work for it, I think you can get it. I truly believe that.
I want to be known for my performances and doing my craft well, not for funny stuff I post on Twitter or whatever. — © Billy Magnussen
I want to be known for my performances and doing my craft well, not for funny stuff I post on Twitter or whatever.
I eat eight times a day. But it's what my intake is. I eat all the time, but it's good stuff. You want to eat that chocolate? You want to eat that dessert? Have that apple or vegetable instead.
Every role is the best role you've ever got. It's the only role you have.
I'm very fortunate to get paid for something I love doing.
I don't sing lead - I am not the lead singer - but I do sing some stuff sometimes.
I actually did Shakespeare when I was at North Carolina School of the Arts. I studied with Gerald Freedman and Mary Irwin - it was fun; I enjoyed it.
Doing the soaps, every day it's constant training. Dealing with camera angles, the other people - it's great training.
When I act, I feel like I am a color in someone else's painting - I can be the best blue that there is, but I'm still only part of their entire picture - but, with music, when I am performing with Reserved For Rondee, I am the painter, you know?
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.
I'm not a big TV watcher guy; I like being outside.
I was always into sports and a lot of physical activities. My dad was a kickboxer and a body builder. My mom was an aerobics teacher.
That's the difference between working on film and working in a play. In a play, you work on it, and you live in it and develop it and make it happen.
There's nothing better than hearing someone laugh.
When you really want a role, you just put your soul in it.
I would totally, if Alan Cumming is tired of doing Cabaret, I'd be like, 'I'll do it tonight.' I would have such a good time doing that.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
It's one thing believing in yourself, it's another thing having other people believe in you, and that is the greatest gift, honestly.
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