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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.
Billy Bob Thornton
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Billy Bob Thornton
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: August 4
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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 tend to like to move on. I don't sit around and dwell on things much.
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Basically there are no stars anymore. The audience is the star.
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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've led a very eclectic life.
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Songwriting and screenwriting aren't that different to me.
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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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Nothing wrong with computer as things. They can work wonders in communications and business and medicine and everything else.
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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'm not really a guy who wants to be a director, anyway.
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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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You want to know the hardest thing about being smart? What? I pretty much always know what's going to happen next there's no suspense.
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Life is magical and I guess my thing is I wish that people wanted that magic.
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