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Reality shows are usually created by people doing and saying stupid things.
Billy Bob Thornton
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Billy Bob Thornton
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: August 4
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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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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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To tell you the truth, I don't ever talk about characters as separate from myself.
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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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I’m not much of a drinker, so I’m going to eat seven pounds of pork.
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I've led a very eclectic life.
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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've lived in California for half of my life. It's weird, everyone thinks of me as this guy who's from the South ... I'm really a Californian.
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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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Movies now, you can watch a trailer for a movie on TV now and you're not sure if it's a video game or a movie. You have to wait till the end of it to see, oh, I see, those actors are in it, so that one's a movie. Oftentimes, it's based on a video game.
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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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Just the other day, my assistant was on the line with Calvin Klein. Golly, I usually shop at Sears.
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