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I know that I loved music before I loved movies, simply because I didn't see movies as a kid.
Billy Bob Thornton
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Billy Bob Thornton
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: August 4
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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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My process started when I was born. The process is life experience. I believe that what makes you an artist, or at least an artist who can communicate the ideas that they want to get across, are people that have life experience.
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A lot of kids, when they go to church, they don't really pay much attention to what they're saying or whatever.
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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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The thing about a motion picture is that look of film on a big screen takes you into a magical.
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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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I mean the most important thing you can have as an actor, writer, director, or whatever you are, poet or whatever it is, is life experience. Life experience doesn't mean you have to live 50 years to have it. I mean you know a lot of people have huge life experience by the time they're in college.
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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.
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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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If you love somebody let them know every day.
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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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Songwriting and screenwriting aren't that different to me.
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