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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.
Billy Bob Thornton
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Billy Bob Thornton
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: August 4
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I always wished there was somebody like the Coen Brothers and they appeared. And so yeah, my favorite role that I've ever done was in The Man Who Wasn't There. That's my very favorite character I've ever played.
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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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I'm not really a guy who wants to be a director, anyway.
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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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I’m not much of a drinker, so I’m going to eat seven pounds of pork.
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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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If you've written it you know exactly whoever you're playing if you've written it you already know it. As a matter of fact, you've already made the movie if you wrote it. You've made it in your head.
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Every couple I know has side-by-side grave plots, but when we do it we're the biggest weirdos on the block.
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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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Just the other day, my assistant was on the line with Calvin Klein. Golly, I usually shop at Sears.
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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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The great movies that I want to do now are being made for $2.5-million budgets.
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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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When people wear shoes that don't fit them, it says something about their soul. Generally, I think it means they are good people.
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I'll always consider myself a Southerner. A lot of people put California down, but my dreams were realized there.
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The only times you'll see me in terms of the movie business is when I have to go to the premieres of my own movies. I don't go to see ones that aren't mine because I don't even like going to mine.
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Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.
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I always wanted to play a lawyer.
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These days movies are cut very quickly and sort of fragmented and I tend to do slower moving stories where people develop relationships with people. I think I'd probably do a lot better if I lived in Europe - I think it's more of a European sensibility somehow.
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