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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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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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I’m not much of a drinker, so I’m going to eat seven pounds of pork.
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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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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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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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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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I tend to like to move on. I don't sit around and dwell on things much.
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I'm not sure that I'm really relevant as a director anymore. Or as a writer, either, to tell you the truth.
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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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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'm not really a guy who wants to be a director, anyway.
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I always say if you're going to do a movie about Charles de Gaulle get a Frenchman, you know. I'm not French. And yeah, sure I could get with a dialect coach and work for six months trying to talk like a Frenchman. But there's some French actors. Just get one of them, you know.
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