Billy Bob Thornton
Billy Bob Thornton
Billy Bob Thornton is an American actor, filmmaker, singer, songwriter, and musician...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth4 August 1955
CityHot Springs, AR
CountryUnited States of America
character blessing play
Anytime you get a chance to play some extreme character, in any direction, it's always a great blessing.
brother character men
I always wished there was somebody like the Coen Brothers and they appeared. And so yeah, my favorite role that I've ever done was in The Man Who Wasn't There. That's my very favorite character I've ever played.
writing character film
Usually with film writing I start with characters, and set about writing their story.
character thinking mountain
If you look at a character as a mountain over there that you have to climb, then I think you've lost 50 percent of the air.
character
Every character I play is me, always has been.
character
To tell you the truth, I don't ever talk about characters as separate from myself.
character
As most characters are that I play, there's a lot of me in it, anyway.
independent character film
The independent film business is pretty much gone. Now you can do it in a format where you actually get to develop a character over a period of time.
character play acting
Playing normal-looking characters really intimidatesme. I got into acting to play anyone but me.
character thinking
Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory.
dialect-coach trying six-months
I always say if you're going to do a movie about Charles de Gaulle get a Frenchman, you know. I'm not French. And yeah, sure I could get with a dialect coach and work for six months trying to talk like a Frenchman. But there's some French actors. Just get one of them, you know.
mean college years
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.
men people middle
People a lot of times say that you know it must be hard to direct yourself. That's a myth. It's easier to direct yourself. There's no middle man, you know.
people television want
People want the truth but they only want the truth so they can talk bad about you on the blog or on television. They want you to tell them the truth and it screws everybody.