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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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Billy Bob Thornton
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: August 4
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I didn't cry at my father's funeral, and I felt guilty about that. Of course, he got sick not too long after he and I had had that final altercation, and I felt real guilty because of that, too. Then years later, one day, I was probably in my late twenties, early thirties, and I just broke down crying, because I finally got my father.
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You read something and you just feel this makes sense. And sometimes before you even read it you have a feeling that yeah, I'm probably gonna do this one.
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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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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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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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My dad didn't hug me every day and say he loved me and anything like that.
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[The lyrics and melody] usually come a little simultaneously, but I would say the lyrics are first usually I have the idea for a story in my head, or few lines.
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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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The independent film business is pretty much gone. Now you can do it in a format where you actually get to develop a character over a period of time.
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I actually am a phobic twitchy sort of nervous guy.
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I never wanted to write a book, and people have asked me for years to do it.
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I think people can live a religious life and yet believe in things maybe outside the box a little bit.
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As most characters are that I play, there's a lot of me in it, anyway.
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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.
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