QUOTES by Billy Bob Thornton
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"Anytime you get a chance to play some extreme character, in any direction, it's always a great blessing."
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"I figured I would have to tell someone to kiss my ass before it was all over, and I have -- twice."
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"These days and times you can't do eclectic records. In the '60s you could, but not anymore."
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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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"Life is magical and I guess my thing is I wish that people wanted that magic."
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"I don't see anything wrong with a cell phone. That's great. You have a flat tire in the middle of the night; it works better than digging in your pocket for a quarter and looking for a payphone eight miles down the road."
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"When I was coming up in the '80s television, if you were on television that meant either you were a young actor just coming up like I was, or you were an older actor whose career was over and you had to go on television."
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"I think Americana music is music that is generally more singer/songwriter oriented. It has more to do with the songwriting. The music, it's more like stories set to music."
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"I generally have lyrics first, but you can't help that when you're writing lyrics you start to get a melody in your head. So they come kind of simultaneously."
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"I write songs on guitar and that's about how good of a guitar player I am. I can write songs on it."
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"[The lyrics and melody] usually come a little simultaneously, but I would say the lyrics are first; usually I have the idea for a story in my head, or few lines."
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"People's attention spans are a little shorter these days. Same thing with food and movies."
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"Usually with film writing I start with characters, and set about writing their story."
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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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"LA has its own vibe. It has a charm that a lot of people overlook sometimes."
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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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"You read something and you just feel this makes sense. And sometimes before you even read it you have a feeling that yeah, I'm probably gonna do this one."
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"If someone is talking to you and tells you that you ought to do something, and you can tell they mean it, those are the scary people. Those are the people you want to watch out for."
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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."
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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."
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"After you've done 60-something movies, you're always looking for something different."
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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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