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People think you have to be tortured or miserable to write, but I'm finding that I get inspired a lot more these days before I'm happy.

Billy Bob Thornton

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Billy Bob Thornton
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: August 4
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Movies now, you can watch a trailer for a movie on TV now and you're not sure if it's a video game or a movie. You have to wait till the end of it to see, oh, I see, those actors are in it, so that one's a movie. Oftentimes, it's based on a video game.
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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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The only times you'll see me in terms of the movie business is when I have to go to the premieres of my own movies. I don't go to see ones that aren't mine because I don't even like going to mine.
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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've led a very eclectic life.
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I've been largely an improvisational actor for most of my career.
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I have been fortunate to get some really good scripts over the years and I haven't turned down anything that I regretted so far. And my manager who I've been with for over 25 years is very good at knowing what I should and shouldn't do a lot of times.
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A lot of kids, when they go to church, they don't really pay much attention to what they're saying or whatever.
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I think people can live a religious life and yet believe in things maybe outside the box a little bit.
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My dad didn't hug me every day and say he loved me and anything like that.
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On TV you can, you know you can cram, you know, 30 people into a closet and have an orgy, and then they can all shoot up, and everybody has cigarettes in their nostrils and their ears. They don't care. So yeah, television is amazing right now.
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I'm not sure that I'm really relevant as a director anymore. Or as a writer, either, to tell you the truth.
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[The lyrics and melody] usually come a little simultaneously, but I would say the lyrics are first usually I have the idea for a story in my head, or few lines.
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If you looked in magazines ... you never see me in those out-on-the-town pages. I'm either at home playing with the kids or I'm working.
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I always say if you're going to do a movie about Charles de Gaulle get a Frenchman, you know. I'm not French. And yeah, sure I could get with a dialect coach and work for six months trying to talk like a Frenchman. But there's some French actors. Just get one of them, you know.
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Kids won't watch older movies - they want to see what's hip right now.
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My process started when I was born. The process is life experience. I believe that what makes you an artist, or at least an artist who can communicate the ideas that they want to get across, are people that have life experience.
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