Billy Bob Thornton
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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.
Like in music, you can learn to play guitar.
You can learn to play piano.
You can learn to play drums.
No, I'll take that back.
You can get better at playing drums, but if you're not born a drummer, you're not going to be able to do it.
My brother, God rest his soul, who passed away at 30, Jimmy, he was a brilliant musician, played every instrument in the world.
Except when he got on my drums and he looked like he had some muscular disorder.
It was like, he was just like, he goes, how do you do this?