Billy Bob Thornton

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.

My sense memory is here on the edge of my skin every fucking minute.

And I mean, if you were raised where I was, it was like, you know, I don't forget any of that stuff.

And I've lived 50 different lives.

So plenty to draw on.

And I just believe that people want, it sounds like you're smarter if you say, well, here's how I learn lines.

I take this, and then I have this mathematical formula, and I imagine these letters as numbers and stuff like that.

And it's like, because the press loves that because it's like, what a genius.

You know, they don't respect, hell, I don't know, I just go out there and do it as much because people want to believe that anyone can do this if you get in the right school, if you get...

The right, you know, teaching from someone.

If you go study Shakespeare or whatever it is.

And, you know, I just don't believe that's true.

I believe you either have it or you don't have it.