The last movie I did, I was very lucky: I got to work with probably the best actor of our era, Billy Bob Thornton. He's just incredible. I was like a sponge: I soaked up everything he had to say.
quote by Tim McGraw
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Sponge
Vic Chessnut)
pleasure is melting like chocolate
my blue ribbon gumption is gone
all my gravy must have soaked into something
and the world...
the filthy steps, the cold concrete
the phony earth below my feet
the ancient odor of the streets
yes the world it is a sponge
and when the crisis passes
when the coast is clear
I'll be buffed down to a liquid
and the world it is a sponge
throughout this entire ugly outing
I've been mumbling the convex of what I should be shouting
but I'll soon be silent you'll soon hear nothing
'cause the world it is a sponge
song performed by by REM
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If you love somebody let them know every day.
quote by Billy Bob Thornton
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Marketing is the devil.
quote by Billy Bob Thornton
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Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there.
quote by Billy Bob Thornton
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I quit flying years ago. I don't want to die with tourists.
quote by Billy Bob Thornton
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I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.
quote by Billy Bob Thornton
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If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.
quote by Thornton Wilder
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The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind.
quote by Stella Adler
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I've been lucky - I've been an actor for eight years and I've never been out of work.
quote by Kent McCord
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I believe in running through the rain and crashing into the person you love and having your lips bleed on each other.
quote by Billy Bob Thornton
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Just the other day, my assistant was on the line with Calvin Klein. Golly, I usually shop at Sears.
quote by Billy Bob Thornton
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I've never heard of anybody smoking a joint and going on a rampage. It makes you lie around on the floor and look at the ceiling. What's wrong with that?
quote by Billy Bob Thornton
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I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.
quote by Billy Bob Thornton
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The Man Who Wasn't There
Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, Michael Badalucco, James Gandolfini, Katherine Borowitz
from The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
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Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.
quote by Billy Bob Thornton
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A lifetime of work, particularly where you get to see an actor grow and change, is better than becoming a rock & roll movie star.
quote by Laura Linney
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I never wanted to be an actor. I never want to be an actor. I want to be a movie star. The whole idea of having to act is too gruesome. It's too ambitious for me.
quote by Vincent Gallo
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Behind the Scenes
The actor struts his little hour,
Between the limelight and the band;
The public feel the actor's power,
Yet nothing do they understand
Of all the touches here and there
That make or mar the actor's part,
They never see, beneath the glare,
The artist striving after art.
To them it seems a labour slight
Where nought of study intervenes;
You see it in another light
When once you've been behind the scenes.
For though the actor at his best
Is, like a poet, born not made,
He still must study with a zest
And practise hard to learn his trade.
So, whether on the actor's form
The stately robes of Hamlet sit,
Or as Macbeth he rave and storm,
Or plays burlesque to please the pit,
'Tis each and all a work of art,
That constant care and practice means --
The actor who creates a part
Has done his work behind the scenes.
poem by Andrew Barton Paterson
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It's the same with people knowing absolutely everything there is to know about an actor. I actually think the more personal information you have about an actor, the more you have to carve out for yourself when you go to a movie and see them in it.
quote by Holly Hunter
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Dewpoint.......Final couplet is the poems' kernel
I am at the point
Where I can absorb no more.
You can only get so rain-soaked
And then rain-soaked no more.
Like a slug, sliding across the floor,
I leave a slimy trail, like fingerprints,
Wherever I go,
Bleeding my lifeblood,
I wear the hematomas like a shroud.
The body can only take so much pain
before the bones break, the marrow spills out
and the face becomes twisted, wrung...
An old, sunken in, sponge.
Stepping out of the shower, upto a fogged mirror
Where my face is no longer visible.
I am saturated with heartbreak
And at the dewpoint of its breakdown.
poem by John Tansey
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