I mean the most important thing you can have as an actor, writer, director, or whatever you are, … - Billy Bob Thornton

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There is nothing quite as potent as a focused life, one lived on purpose.

Billy Bob Thornton

I mean the most important thing you can have as an actor, writer, director, or whatever you are, poet or whatever it is, is life experience. Life experience doesn't mean you have to live 50 years to have it. I mean you know a lot of people have huge life experience by the time they're in college.

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My process started when I was born. The process is life experience. I believe that what makes you an artist, or at least an artist who can communicate the ideas that they want to get across, are people that have life experience.

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