If you look at a character as a mountain over there that you have to climb, then I … - Billy Bob Thornton

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A way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It's a clumsy way of describing it but it sort of does it for me.

Billy Bob Thornton

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.

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

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

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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.

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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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I've been married five times, and people think that's some bizarre thing, yet I've got buddies who refuse to get married and have sex with 15 people a week. I'm like, "Which is better?" At least I was trying.

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