Billy Bob Thornton

I just persevered and did this stuff.

But I think that knowing what work is before you get famous really helps you out in your life.

I mean, you know, I worked at a sawmill, a machine shop, I hauled heavy equipment, hauled hay when I was 13.

Yeah, I did all that shit.

And, I mean, stuff that looking back on it, it's like I don't even know how I did it half the time.

I worked as a carpenter's helper.

And so if I hadn't done all that stuff, if all I had known was the entertainment business, I think that would drive any fucking body crazy.

You know, I don't think I would have made it through that if, you know, like looking at the real world out there from a place where you never experienced the real world.

Right.

Right.

Like you're talking about Ricky and all that stuff.

It's like if your only experience has been people getting your fucking juice box for you.

you know, or whatever it is, then, and you get used to that shit too.

I'm telling you these days, my wife thinks I, I'm the most helpless son of a bitch in the world.

And in some ways I am, I mean, I get into an airport and I'm, I used to go to fucking airports before I was famous.

I knew where to go.

I knew where to put my shit, you know, now I'll go in there and I look like I'm, it's like Logan's run.

I look, I get out and I'm like, where the fuck are we now?

You know,

And I'll ask, you know, my assistant or publicist or somebody, I'm like, well, can I take this bag on there?