Billy Bob Thornton Quotes - Page 4

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• As most characters are that I play, there's a lot of me in it, anyway.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Character, Play

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• After you've done 60-something movies, you're always looking for something different.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Different, Done

  Source: collider.com

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• I worked as a roadie in the rock and roll business which was great fun. Very little money, very little food and the whole thing about the roadie's lifestyle is great because all the groupies have to go through the roadies to get to the rock stars. It's not necessarily true.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Stars, Fun, Rocks

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Sometimes we don't want the bad guy to get caught because otherwise the story is over. You want to at least see it through to the end.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Guy, Over You, Want

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• I've been largely an improvisational actor for most of my career.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Careers, Actors

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• I never wanted to write a book, and people have asked me for years to do it.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Book, Writing, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When you weigh 135 pounds and you're telling people who are 6'4" and 250 pounds to get out of your way, how do you do that? Well, a lot of that is in the eyes.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Eye, People, Pounds

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• A lot of kids, when they go to church, they don't really pay much attention to what they're saying or whatever.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Kids, Church, Attention

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think people can live a religious life and yet believe in things maybe outside the box a little bit.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Religious, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think my stuff's kind of obsolete now, you know? I'm making Model Ts or something, and everybody else is making spaceships.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Thinking, Stuff, Kind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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

  Kids, House, Television

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If something really strikes a chord with an audience, if it pops on TV, I don't mind watching it for a few minutes.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Mind, Tvs, Chords

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• At my dad's funeral I didn't cry when my dad died. I did it years later when I forgave him, which I've totally forgiven him and I loved my dad.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Dad, Years, Funeral

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I can't imagine laying a finger on my kids. I go the other way and probably because my father was so abusive.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Father, Kids, Way

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• We didn't have a movie theatre until I was about nine, so I just didn't see them. But, once I got into movies I loved them.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Theatre, Nine, Movie Theatre

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• I know that I loved music before I loved movies, simply because I didn't see movies as a kid.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Kids, Music Is, Knows

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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.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Song, Writing, Hook

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• We don't shoot in L.A. much anymore. You know, TV and movies, most everything's shot other places.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Tvs, Shots, Knows

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Songwriting and screenwriting aren't that different to me.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Different, Songwriting, Screenwriting

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• People's attention spans are a little shorter these days. Same thing with food and movies.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  People, Attention, Littles

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• I know it's boring to say this but I always start with the script. I mean if it's well written and it's a character that I haven't necessarily played before.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Character, Mean, Scripts

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Now the idea in the movie world is to make things the same. And in the TV world, the idea is to do something different, so... that's why I'm here!

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Ideas, Tvs, Different

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You can write when you're dyslexic, you just can't read it. But I started writing short stories as a child and I found the short story format a real nice one. I love short stories and I love short documentaries or short films of any kind.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Short Love, Children, Real

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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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.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Girl, Drama, School

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• My mom was a psychic. And there's a movie called The Gift that I'd written years ago with Cate Blanchett which is loosely based on my mom.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Mom, Years, Psychics

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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