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If you're going to take care of your kids and pay for your house and do something good for adults, you have to do something on television now.
Billy Bob Thornton
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Billy Bob Thornton
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: August 4
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Kids won't watch older movies - they want to see what's hip right now.
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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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People's attention spans are a little shorter these days. Same thing with food and movies.
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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 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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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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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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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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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 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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As most characters are that I play, there's a lot of me in it, anyway.
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LA has its own vibe. It has a charm that a lot of people overlook sometimes.
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Nothing wrong with computer as things. They can work wonders in communications and business and medicine and everything else.
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Independent films now, they want to give you $2 million to make it, 21 days to shoot it and they want 10 movie stars in it.
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I always wanted to play a lawyer.
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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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Life is magical and I guess my thing is I wish that people wanted that magic.
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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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You never know what an audience is going to think about something. The ones that the audience doesn't get, I tend to let them go. I don't like to dwell on them too much.
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