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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.
Billy Bob Thornton
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Billy Bob Thornton
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: August 4
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I attribute all my success to ignorance. If you don't ever think about not getting where you want to be, I think it helps you out.
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I'll always consider myself a Southerner. A lot of people put California down, but my dreams were realized there.
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When people are bothering you constantly when you're trying to do just a simple thing that humans do every day but they won't let you do it without bugging you about it, that was a hard thing. Because I became a movie star overnight. From a working actor and working writer to a movie star.
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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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Nothing wrong with computer as things. They can work wonders in communications and business and medicine and everything else.
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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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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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Everything is very convenient now and it would be real nice if somehow people started going back to the movie theater. And it's people of my generation. It's their fault in a lot of ways, people over 40. It's their fault that the only movies are about robots and beautiful vampires. It's wild, all vampires are beautiful.
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Just the other day, my assistant was on the line with Calvin Klein. Golly, I usually shop at Sears.
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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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Anytime you get a chance to play some extreme character, in any direction, it's always a great blessing.
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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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Songwriting and screenwriting aren't that different to me.
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