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I never wanted to write a book, and people have asked me for years to do it.
Billy Bob Thornton
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Billy Bob Thornton
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: August 4
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I mean the most important thing you can have as an actor, writer, director, or whatever you are, poet or whatever it is, is life experience. Life experience doesn't mean you have to live 50 years to have it. I mean you know a lot of people have huge life experience by the time they're in college.
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If you look at a character as a mountain over there that you have to climb, then I think you've lost 50 percent of the air.
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When I saw that show Lost I learned something. Other than one sort of big dude if you're in an airplane crash only models survive. So you know sit next to somebody pretty, but anyhow.
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LA has its own vibe. It has a charm that a lot of people overlook sometimes.
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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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If someone is talking to you and tells you that you ought to do something, and you can tell they mean it, those are the scary people. Those are the people you want to watch out for.
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I actually am a phobic twitchy sort of nervous guy.
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You read something and you just feel this makes sense. And sometimes before you even read it you have a feeling that yeah, I'm probably gonna do this one.
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You know, what's popular? Okay, vampires are very popular. Let me make my vampire movie. I'm not saying you can't make a vampire movie. But if you're going to do one do something crazy. I mean don't just get a bunch of, like I said, models and make them into vampires so you'll get an audience. You know maybe get some ugly vampires for a change.
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I’m not much of a drinker, so I’m going to eat seven pounds of pork.
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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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You never know what an audience is going to think about something. The ones that the audience doesn't get, I tend to let them go. I don't like to dwell on them too much.
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Reality shows are usually created by people doing and saying stupid things.
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If you've written it you know exactly whoever you're playing if you've written it you already know it. As a matter of fact, you've already made the movie if you wrote it. You've made it in your head.
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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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I've been largely an improvisational actor for most of my career.
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Basically there are no stars anymore. The audience is the star.
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To tell you the truth, I don't ever talk about characters as separate from myself.
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I've never heard of anybody smoking a joint and going on a rampage. It makes you lie around on the floor and look at the ceiling. What's wrong with that?
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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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