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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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Normally you're 21 years old and you look like Tom Cruise and you do a couple underwear commercials first and then you're a movie star. That didn't happen for me. So it was all quite overwhelming.
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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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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 used to put that I studied with Stella Adler on my resume. I never met Stella Adler. But if you told a casting director you studied with Stella Adler all the sudden they'd let you in the door.
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I tend to like to move on. I don't sit around and dwell on things much.
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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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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 got in drama class in high school and I only got in there because there were girls and I thought maybe I could make a grade above a C in something.
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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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You want to know the hardest thing about being smart? What? I pretty much always know what's going to happen next there's no suspense.
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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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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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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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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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If you love somebody let them know every day.
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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've been largely an improvisational actor for most of my career.
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I've gone through my periods. I've read the Bible completely, all the way through twice. I did it once when I was about 20 and I did it again when I was about 30.
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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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I write songs on guitar and that's about how good of a guitar player I am. I can write songs on it.
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