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To tell you the truth, I don't ever talk about characters as separate from myself.

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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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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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Basically there are no stars anymore. The audience is the star.
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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 always wanted to play a lawyer.
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They were on the set of Bad Santa, but I tried to keep the headphones away from them. My kids have seen Sling Blade, Armageddon, Bandits and Friday Night Lights. They have not seen Monster's Ball and nor will they ever. Even when they are 60. I will leave it in my will.
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I used to put that I studied with Stella Adler on my resume. I never met Stella Adler. But if you told a casting director you studied with Stella Adler all the sudden they'd let you in the door.
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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 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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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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My dad didn't hug me every day and say he loved me and anything like that.
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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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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.
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When people wear shoes that don't fit them, it says something about their soul. Generally, I think it means they are good people.
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