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My dad didn't hug me every day and say he loved me and anything like that.
Billy Bob Thornton
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Billy Bob Thornton
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: August 4
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People's attention spans are a little shorter these days. Same thing with food and movies.
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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 worked as a roadie in the rock and roll business which was great fun. Very little money, very little food and the whole thing about the roadie's lifestyle is great because all the groupies have to go through the roadies to get to the rock stars. It's not necessarily true.
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If Michelle Pfeiffer gave Mel Gibson a vial of blood to wear around his neck in a movie you'd think it was terribly romantic, everyone would cry and they'd win awards. But in real life if someone does that they'd be considered weird.
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Kids won't watch older movies - they want to see what's hip right now.
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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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Anytime you get a chance to play some extreme character, in any direction, it's always a great blessing.
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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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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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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 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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Songwriting and screenwriting aren't that different to me.
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If you're going to take care of your kids and pay for your house and do something good for adults, you have to do something on television now.
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Life is magical and I guess my thing is I wish that people wanted that magic.
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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’m not much of a drinker, so I’m going to eat seven pounds of pork.
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I'm not really a full-time director, I just like to direct the things that I write because I think I'm going to know it better than someone else.
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