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Billy Bob Thornton
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: August 4
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Arkansas
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Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there.
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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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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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Usually with film writing I start with characters, and set about writing their story.
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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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I know that I loved music before I loved movies, simply because I didn't see movies as a kid.
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When I was growing up, when I was 11 years old I was listening to The Mothers of Invention. You know, I mean I was a Frank Zappa fan in Arkansas.
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Songwriting and screenwriting aren't that different to me.
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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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Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got kids and family and friends, and I don't like bad things. I don't think they're funny, and it's irresponsible to make movies that don't show you how that's not good.
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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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The great movies that I want to do now are being made for $2.5-million budgets.
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Independent films now, they want to give you $2 million to make it, 21 days to shoot it and they want 10 movie stars in it.
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Life is magical and I guess my thing is I wish that people wanted that magic.
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I've been largely an improvisational actor for most of my career.
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I've never heard of anybody smoking a joint and going on a rampage. It makes you lie around on the floor and look at the ceiling. What's wrong with that?
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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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I can't sit through plays and musical theatre. I just want to run up onstage and mess up their hair and turn over the furniture.
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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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When I saw that show Lost I learned something. Other than one sort of big dude if you're in an airplane crash only models survive. So you know sit next to somebody pretty, but anyhow.
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