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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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Billy Bob Thornton
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: August 4
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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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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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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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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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I never wanted to write a book, and people have asked me for years to do it.
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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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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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Anytime you get a chance to play some extreme character, in any direction, it's always a great blessing.
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People's attention spans are a little shorter these days. Same thing with food and movies.
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Life is magical and I guess my thing is I wish that people wanted that magic.
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I actually am a phobic twitchy sort of nervous guy.
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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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If Michelle Pfeiffer gave Mel Gibson a vial of blood to wear around his neck in a movie you'd think it was terribly romantic, everyone would cry and they'd win awards. But in real life if someone does that they'd be considered weird.
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I've gone through my periods. I've read the Bible completely, all the way through twice. I did it once when I was about 20 and I did it again when I was about 30.
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I can't sit through plays and musical theatre. I just want to run up onstage and mess up their hair and turn over the furniture.
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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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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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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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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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I always wanted to play a lawyer.
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