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Now, if you want to do realistic, kind of heavier acting stuff, you do it on Amazon or Netflix or whatever or HBO.

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Billy Bob Thornton
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: August 4
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I always say if you're going to do a movie about Charles de Gaulle get a Frenchman, you know. I'm not French. And yeah, sure I could get with a dialect coach and work for six months trying to talk like a Frenchman. But there's some French actors. Just get one of them, you know.
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My songs aren't built around choruses or hooks or anything like that. That's kind of how I write screenplays too.
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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 think you have to be tortured or miserable to write, but I'm finding that I get inspired a lot more these days before I'm happy.
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I actually am a phobic twitchy sort of nervous guy.
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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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A lot of people are doing television now. Great, legendary actors are doing movies on cable and stuff now, and you can't blame them, because they're still doing adult dramas and adult comedies on those stations.
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I've been married five times, and people think that's some bizarre thing, yet I've got buddies who refuse to get married and have sex with 15 people a week. I'm like Which is better? At least I was trying.
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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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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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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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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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As most characters are that I play, there's a lot of me in it, anyway.
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