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I’m not much of a drinker, so I’m going to eat seven pounds of pork.
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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At my dad's funeral I didn't cry when my dad died. I did it years later when I forgave him, which I've totally forgiven him and I loved my dad.
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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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Now the idea in the movie world is to make things the same. And in the TV world, the idea is to do something different, so... that's why I'm here!
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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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Now, if you want to do realistic, kind of heavier acting stuff, you do it on Amazon or Netflix or whatever or HBO.
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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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Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there.
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Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory.
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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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Reality shows are usually created by people doing and saying stupid things.
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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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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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People want the truth but they only want the truth so they can talk bad about you on the blog or on television. They want you to tell them the truth and it screws everybody.
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When I was growing up, when I was 11 years old I was listening to The Mothers of Invention. You know, I mean I was a Frank Zappa fan in Arkansas.
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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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I know that I loved music before I loved movies, simply because I didn't see movies as a kid.
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