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Kids won't watch older movies - they want to see what's hip right now.

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Billy Bob Thornton
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: August 4
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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 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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