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Billy Bob Thornton
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: August 4
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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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When people are bothering you constantly when you're trying to do just a simple thing that humans do every day but they won't let you do it without bugging you about it, that was a hard thing. Because I became a movie star overnight. From a working actor and working writer to a movie star.
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I always wanted to play a lawyer.
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Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there.
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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 been largely an improvisational actor for most of my career.
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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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At my dad's funeral I didn't cry when my dad died. I did it years later when I forgave him, which I've totally forgiven him and I loved my dad.
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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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Normally you're 21 years old and you look like Tom Cruise and you do a couple underwear commercials first and then you're a movie star. That didn't happen for me. So it was all quite overwhelming.
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Usually with film writing I start with characters, and set about writing their story.
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Comedy is harder than drama, because with comedy you're expecting a result..you make them laugh. [If] they ain't laughing then you're screwed.
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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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I don't know how to type so I handwrite everything.
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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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Anytime you get a chance to play some extreme character, in any direction, it's always a great blessing.
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People think you have to be tortured or miserable to write, but I'm finding that I get inspired a lot more these days before I'm happy.
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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 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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I always have an idea before we even start the movie because if you hire the wrong person, within a couple of days you're going to know that and you're going to be really panicked.
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