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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.
Billy Bob Thornton
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Billy Bob Thornton
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: August 4
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My process started when I was born. The process is life experience. I believe that what makes you an artist, or at least an artist who can communicate the ideas that they want to get across, are people that have life experience.
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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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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'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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When I was a teenager, I read the bible cover-to-cover, and I found the Old Testament, it's a pretty bloody history book.
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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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I’m not much of a drinker, so I’m going to eat seven pounds of pork.
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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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A lot of people are doing television now. Great, legendary actors are doing movies on cable and stuff now, and you can't blame them, because they're still doing adult dramas and adult comedies on those stations.
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Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there.
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I always wanted to play a lawyer.
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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 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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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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When people wear shoes that don't fit them, it says something about their soul. Generally, I think it means they are good people.
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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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They were on the set of Bad Santa, but I tried to keep the headphones away from them. My kids have seen Sling Blade, Armageddon, Bandits and Friday Night Lights. They have not seen Monster's Ball and nor will they ever. Even when they are 60. I will leave it in my will.
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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 tend to like to move on. I don't sit around and dwell on things much.
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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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