78 Top Billy Bob Thornton Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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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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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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I actually am a phobic twitchy sort of nervous guy.

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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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LA has its own vibe. It has a charm that a lot of people overlook sometimes.

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You can't knock a place where you realized your dreams.

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I love acting with all my heart and I love music with all my heart.

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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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Sometimes I have songs born out of stories.

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Songwriting and screenwriting aren't that different to me.

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Usually with film writing I start with characters, and set about writing their story.

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

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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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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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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 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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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 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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Life is magical and I guess my thing is I wish that people wanted that magic.

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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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These days and times you can't do eclectic records. In the '60s you could, but not anymore.

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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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Anytime you get a chance to play some extreme character, in any direction, it's always a great blessing.

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