Patrick Fugit Biography

Patrick Fugit landed squarely on top of the Hollywood heap when, for the actor's big-screen debut, writer/director Cameron Crowe tapped him to play the lead, William Miller (Crowe's onscreen teenage alter-ego), in the smash film à clef Almost Famous (2000). The high profile of the role and the movie's success ensured continued stardom for the then-17-year-old, who had forged a path to stardom by discovering a rudimentary love of acting in seventh grade and asking his mother to help him sign with an agent. After the Crowe assignment, Fugit essayed a series of roles over the next several years that typically found him playing a hunky boyfriend -- as in White Oleander (2002) and the teen-oriented religious farce Saved! (2003). Unfortunately -- Famous and Saved aside -- Fugit's subsequent role choice often left something to be desired, witness his involvement in the dumb-dumb monster movie Dead Birds (2004) and the barely released comedy Bickford Schmeckler's Cool Ideas (2006). In 2007, Fugit signed to play opposite screen heavy Dennis Quaid in the psychological thriller Horsemen (2008). He appeared in 2009's Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant. He reteamed with Cameron Crowe playing a zookeeper in 2011's We Bought a Zoo, and had a role as the independent-minded son in the HBO docudrama Cinema Verite. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi

• 1. Russell Hammond: What am I doing? I' am telling secrets to the ONE guy you don't tell secrets too.
  2. William Miller: No. We'll do the interview some other time.
  3. Russell Hammond: Okay. Cool. So I guess tonight it's just... you know, friends?
  From Almost Famous. Submitted by Giovanni R (5 months ago)

• 1. Zia: I think she cried at my funeral, I don't mean to brag about it or anything, but I'm pretty sure she did. Sometimes I can picture her talking to some guy she feels really close to, about how they lowered me into the grave all pathetic and shriveled up like a melted chocolate bar, and how we never actually got a chance. Then the guy fucks her real nice, fuck it's all about making her feel better.
  From Wristcutters - A Love Story. Submitted by Dov D (7 months ago)

• 1. Zia: They went to the North Pole or whatever the place Nanuk is from is called. He wanted to meet her family and get into that throat singing, saw playing, weird instruments, and all that stuff. It's good that he's back into music, I think. And me? I think I finally understand what Kneller was trying to say.It only happens if it doesn't matter. It comes without effort. Maybe Eugene's right. Maybe I only get stuck on girls I don't have a chance of being with. I am glad for Mikal, though. I hope she got her visa all straightened out. I mean, she did say she'd be right back. Then again, Eugene's old wisdom is when a girl says that, she never does actually come back.
  From Wristcutters - A Love Story. Submitted by Dov D (7 months ago)

• 1. Zia: You remember the other day when you were talking about missing things from life and how you wanted to go back and I told you I didn't miss anything?
  2. Mikal: Yeah.
  3. Zia: Well... When I'm here, with you, I kind of miss myself, the way I used to be.
  4. Mikal: What were you like?
  5. Zia: I was happy at a time, obviously before I came here, but...
  6. Mikal: Yeah.
  7. Zia: Something about being here with you reminds me of that, it's just, I don't know, it's just weird to me that you can feel that in a place like this. We're all... We're all dead.
  8. Mikal: You know what? Most of the people that I knew before I got here were either half dead or just completely dead already...
  From Wristcutters - A Love Story. Submitted by Dov D (7 months ago)

• 1. Eugene: I'm not sitting in the back.
  2. Zia: Why not?
  3. Eugene: 'Cause everybody knows guy in the back seat doesn't have a cock.
  From Wristcutters - A Love Story. Submitted by Dov D (7 months ago)

• 1. Zia: Being here with you reminds me of what I was like before my suicide.
  2. Mikal: What were you like?
  3. Zia: I was happy.
  From Wristcutters - A Love Story. Submitted by Dov D (7 months ago)

• 1. Lester Bangs: They made you feel cool. And hey, I met you. You are not cool.
  2. William Miller: I know. Even when I thought I was, I knew I wasn't. I'm glad you were home.
  3. Lester Bangs: I'm always home. I'm uncool.
  From Almost Famous. Submitted by William C (7 months ago)

• 1. Russell Hammond: Look at him, he's taking notes with his eyes. How do we know you're not a cop, huh!? The enemy! Stop fucking looking at me!
  2. Dick Roswell: He's your guardian angel, alright?
  3. Dick Roswell: [to William] Don't worry he only means half of what he says.
  4. William Miller: Which half?
  From Almost Famous. Submitted by William C (7 months ago)

• 1. William Miller: Russell, think about your last words wisely
  2. Russell Hammond: Ok. Um...I dig music......And I'm on drugs!
  From Almost Famous. Submitted by William C (8 months ago)

• 1. William Miller: 'That groupie'? She was a Band-Aid! All she did was love your band. And you used her, all of you! You used her and threw her away! She almost died last night while you were with Bob Dylan. You guys, you're always talking about the fans, the fans, the fans; she was your biggest fan, and you threw her away! And if you can't see that, that's your biggest problem. And I love her! I love her!
  From Almost Famous. Submitted by Steven F (8 months ago)

• 1. Zia: I'm not going out tonight. It just makes me depressed.
  2. Eugene: So, what you gonna do? Kill yourself?
  From Wristcutters - A Love Story. Submitted by Bria M (11 months ago)

• 1. Evra the Snake Boy: [whispers/chuckles] You're like Crepsley's bitch now.
  From Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant. Submitted by Amber R (11 months ago)