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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 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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I've led a very eclectic life.
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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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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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If you love somebody let them know every day.
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You can get famous for doing something stupid and empty, but you do something stupid and empty and you're already famous, you lose your career.
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Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.
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Songwriting and screenwriting aren't that different to me.
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If you're 25 years old dressed up like Superman at a comic book convention, that's great. If you're 78 and you're doing it, something's wrong.
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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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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 always have an idea before we even start the movie because if you hire the wrong person, within a couple of days you're going to know that and you're going to be really panicked.
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People always like stories about the little guy fighting the big guy.
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The great movies that I want to do now are being made for $2.5-million budgets.
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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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LA has its own vibe. It has a charm that a lot of people overlook sometimes.
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As most characters are that I play, there's a lot of me in it, anyway.
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All the actors I've worked with as a director over the years I really love and I thought they were all right for the part.
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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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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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