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Billy Bob Thornton

Billy Bob Thornton (born August 4, 1955) is an American actor, filmmaker, singer, songwriter, and musician.

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Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.

Like, Nomination, Nominations, Winning, Would Be

If you've written it you know exactly; whoever you're playing if you've written it you already know it. As a matter of fact, you've already made the movie if you wrote it. You've made it in your head.

Exactly, Fact, Facts, Made, Matter, Wrote

I think I fully commit myself to any role to the extent to which I can. In other words there's some roles that maybe it's just not there, in other words on the page. You know, I mean your job is you need to play the governor and that's what you do. I mean I'm not going to stay up all night if I'm playing a functional role. And I've played a couple of functional roles. And so I'm not going to do anything other, look he's a functional guy. He says hey mister, you forgot your hat.

Couple, Jobs, Look, Maybe, Mean, Role

Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.

Dreams, Inspirational, Life, Line, Motivational, Stopped

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.

California, Californian, Guy, Half, Thinking, Thinks

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

Attention, Church, Kids

All the actors I've worked with as a director over the years I really love and I thought they were all right for the part.

Actors, Director, Directors, Thought, Years

All I'm saying is we got plenty of Texans, and people from Montana, and New Jersey, and Wyoming, or Kansas City. We got plenty of actors. So we don't need some cat from Cardiff-upon-Rosemary-upon-Thyme, or whatever the hell it is, playing people from Montana. And in the reverse, they got plenty of people from Cardiff-upon-Rosemary-upon-Thyme that they don't need our asses coming over there trying to do British accents.

Actors, Cat, Cities, Jersey, Kansas City, People

There was a time when I could walk down the street, Hollywood Boulevard or Beverly Drive, and somebody would come up to you and they would say, "Excuse me," and you'd barely hear them, and you'd turn around and you'd say, "Yeah, how you doing?" and they'd say, "I'm really sorry to bother you, but my aunt is a big fan of yours, and would you mind terribly if you'd just sign this paper," or whatever it is, and you're happy to do that, and the people are pretty nice about it.

Aunt, Happy, Nice, Somebody, Sorry, Terribly

I think maybe I was instrumental in taking the stereotype out of the Southern actor is some ways. I would hope my legacy would be as a serious actor who told the truth and did parts based on the quality of part and not necessarily the money.

Parts, Quality, Southern, Taking, Thinking, Told

These days movies are cut very quickly and sort of fragmented and I tend to do slower moving stories where people develop relationships with people. I think I'd probably do a lot better if I lived in Europe - I think it's more of a European sensibility somehow.

Cutting, Days, Fragmented, Moving, Sensibility, Thinking

Basically there are no stars anymore. The audience is the star.

Anymore, Audience, Basically, Star, Stars

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

Character, Characters, Separate, Talk, Tell, Truth

I'm not a TV junkie outside of sports and history really and stuff like that.

History, Junkie, Sports, Stuff, Tvs

They were on the set of Bad Santa but I tried to keep the headphones away from them. My kids have seen Sling Blade, they've seen Armageddon, Bandits and Friday Night Lights. They have not seen Monster's Ball, nor will they ever, even when they're sixty [laughter]. I will leave it in my will that they can never see it.

Away, Friday, Kids, Laughter, Santa, Set

My mom is such a big supporter of mine. She still is, and always was. So I got the sort of encouragement from that side of the family.

Big, Encouragement, Mom, Sides, Sort, Supporter

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.

Adults, Good, House, Kids

I'll always consider myself a Southerner. A lot of people put California down, but my dreams were realized there.

California, Down, Dream, People, Realized

I always have an idea before we even start the movie because if you hire the wrong person, within a couple of days you're going to know that and you're going to be really panicked.

Couple, Ideas, Know, Person, Start, Wrong Person

I've gone through my periods. I've read the Bible completely, all the way through twice. I did it once when I was about 20 and I did it again when I was about 30.

Bible, Gone, Periods, Read, Twice, Way

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