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Billy Bob Thornton
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: August 4
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So we are headed for a time when there won't be anything but movies that are essentially made like video games, and actors will become obsolete, and then the big stars will be people who live in Brentwood or wherever it is, and they have a show called, I don't know, Pool Parties of Brentwood or something like that.
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LA has its own vibe. It has a charm that a lot of people overlook sometimes.
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The thing about a motion picture is that look of film on a big screen takes you into a magical.
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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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Just the other day, my assistant was on the line with Calvin Klein. Golly, I usually shop at Sears.
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My mom was a psychic. And there's a movie called The Gift that I'd written years ago with Cate Blanchett which is loosely based on my mom.
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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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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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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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I always wished there was somebody like the Coen Brothers and they appeared. And so yeah, my favorite role that I've ever done was in The Man Who Wasn't There. That's my very favorite character I've ever played.
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I don't have a fear of flying I have a fear of crashing.
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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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People's attention spans are a little shorter these days. Same thing with food and movies.
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I don't see anything wrong with a cell phone. That's great. You have a flat tire in the middle of the night it works better than digging in your pocket for a quarter and looking for a payphone eight miles down the road.
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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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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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You can get famous for doing something stupid and empty, but you do something stupid and empty and you're already famous, you lose your career.
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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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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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If you looked in magazines ... you never see me in those out-on-the-town pages. I'm either at home playing with the kids or I'm working.
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