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

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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

acting trying art

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

honestly believe people

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

hate brother 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

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

independent blessed opportunity

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.

Billy Magnussen

dreams you work believe

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.

Billy Magnussen

day good you time

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.

Billy Magnussen

enjoyed north-carolina fun school

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

whatever doing want funny

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?

Billy Magnussen

i-am best you music

I don't sing lead - I am not the lead singer - but I do sing some stuff sometimes.

Billy Magnussen

singer i-am some sometimes

There's nothing better than hearing someone laugh.

Billy Magnussen

laugh nothing someone better

When you really want a role, you just put your soul in it.

Billy Magnussen

your you soul want

Every role is the best role you've ever got. It's the only role you have.

Billy Magnussen

got only best you

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.

Billy Magnussen

live you make-it-happen work

I'm not a big TV watcher guy; I like being outside.

Billy Magnussen

big being like guy

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.

Billy Magnussen

dad mom teacher sports

Doing the soaps, every day it's constant training. Dealing with camera angles, the other people - it's great training.

Billy Magnussen

day great training people

I'm very fortunate to get paid for something I love doing.

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something doing get love

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.

Billy Magnussen

river down go angel