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Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there.
Billy Bob Thornton
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Billy Bob Thornton
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: August 4
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Life is magical and I guess my thing is I wish that people wanted that magic.
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I've lived in California for half of my life. It's weird, everyone thinks of me as this guy who's from the South ... I'm really a Californian.
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I'm really influenced by Southern novelists, not many movie people. More like John Faulkner, William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Flannery O'Connor, John Steinbeck, and people like that.
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Every couple I know has side-by-side grave plots, but when we do it we're the biggest weirdos on the block.
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Independent films now, they want to give you $2 million to make it, 21 days to shoot it and they want 10 movie stars in it.
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If you love somebody let them know every day.
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Heavy role in the movies that I've done that I have loved and fit my soul A Simple Plan, Monster's Ball, Sling Blade, One False Move, Bad Santa even. I mean Bad Santa is a comedy, and it's a very dark comedy, and it's become like iconic, you know.
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I've led a very eclectic life.
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I think Americana music is music that is generally more singer/songwriter oriented. It has more to do with the songwriting. The music, it's more like stories set to music.
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I attribute all my success to ignorance. If you don't ever think about not getting where you want to be, I think it helps you out.
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When people wear shoes that don't fit them, it says something about their soul. Generally, I think it means they are good people.
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My songs aren't built around choruses or hooks or anything like that. That's kind of how I write screenplays too.
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These days movies are cut very quickly and sort of fragmented and I tend to do slower moving stories where people develop relationships with people. I think I'd probably do a lot better if I lived in Europe - I think it's more of a European sensibility somehow.
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My mom was a psychic. And there's a movie called The Gift that I'd written years ago with Cate Blanchett which is loosely based on my mom.
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Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got kids and family and friends, and I don't like bad things. I don't think they're funny, and it's irresponsible to make movies that don't show you how that's not good.
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Reality shows are usually created by people doing and saying stupid things.
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If you're going to take care of your kids and pay for your house and do something good for adults, you have to do something on television now.
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The independent film business is pretty much gone. Now you can do it in a format where you actually get to develop a character over a period of time.
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The thing about a motion picture is that look of film on a big screen takes you into a magical.
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I'll always consider myself a Southerner. A lot of people put California down, but my dreams were realized there.
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