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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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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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I have been fortunate to get some really good scripts over the years and I haven't turned down anything that I regretted so far. And my manager who I've been with for over 25 years is very good at knowing what I should and shouldn't do a lot of times.
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Robert Duvall taught me years ago. He said, You know theatre is not real. I don't like plays. You know, he doesn't like plays. And I agree with him in certain ways, you know. They can be fun. I don't mind going to see them. I went and saw Phantom of the Opera. I thought hey, that's cool. Look at the mask and all that.
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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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The thing about a motion picture is that look of film on a big screen takes you into a magical.
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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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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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Songwriting and screenwriting aren't that different to me.
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I've led a very eclectic life.
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Kids won't watch older movies - they want to see what's hip right now.
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I've been largely an improvisational actor for most of my career.
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I don't know how to type so I handwrite everything.
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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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People always like stories about the little guy fighting the big guy.
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When I was a teenager, I read the bible cover-to-cover, and I found the Old Testament, it's a pretty bloody history book.
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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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Now, if you want to do realistic, kind of heavier acting stuff, you do it on Amazon or Netflix or whatever or HBO.
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I'm really influenced by Southern novelists, not many movie people. More like John Faulkner, William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Flannery O'Connor, John Steinbeck, and people like that.
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I used to put that I studied with Stella Adler on my resume. I never met Stella Adler. But if you told a casting director you studied with Stella Adler all the sudden they'd let you in the door.
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If you love somebody let them know every day.
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