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I always wanted to play a lawyer.
Billy Bob Thornton
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Billy Bob Thornton
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: August 4
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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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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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I'm not sure that I'm really relevant as a director anymore. Or as a writer, either, to tell you the truth.
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I got in drama class in high school and I only got in there because there were girls and I thought maybe I could make a grade above a C in something.
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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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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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Basically there are no stars anymore. The audience is the star.
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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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I've been largely an improvisational actor for most of my career.
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I'm not really a full-time director, I just like to direct the things that I write because I think I'm going to know it better than someone else.
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I don't have a fear of flying I have a fear of crashing.
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All the actors I've worked with as a director over the years I really love and I thought they were all right for the part.
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