Billy Bob Thornton

I don't know anything about acting.

I didn't go to Shakespeare school and stuff.

I didn't, you know, I look at the thing I'm playing Tommy Norris and land man, or I'm playing the guy in Goliath or Fargo or sling blade or monstrous ball, whatever I was in, I just go out there and do what it says, you know, and, uh, be myself in whatever role it is.

And, uh,

Because people want to think there's a trick to everything, that you can learn everything.

And it's kind of just not true.

I mean, I believe artists, whether they're musicians, novelists, actors, whatever they are, I truly believe that you're born with most of it.

I'm not saying that you can't learn and that you can't progress, you can't get better.

I mean, just repetition makes you better.

I mean, just the more you do something, the more comfortable you get with it.

But if you say, like if you were to ask me, what is my process?

hell, I wouldn't know what to tell you.

I don't know what my process is.

It's like my process started when I was born.

I've just, I used my life experience and I do this stuff.

I had lived a very eclectic life and I just remember all this stuff.

I don't need to go in the hallway before a scene and think about when my dad ran over my cat or something.

And, you know, start, you know, gobbling like a turkey and, you know, yelling and screaming and punching the wall and stuff like that.

And

trying to get all this sense memory.