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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: The 2 Pieces of Advice That Fueled Billy Bob Thronton’ Acting Career · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Land Man's Billy Bob Thornton is the rare star who
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  Speaker 2: didn't have his big break until he was in his forties,
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  Speaker 2: but he's since managed to maintain a healthy acting career.
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  Speaker 2: Any credits that to two pieces of advice he received,
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  Speaker 2: one from an all time legend and the other from
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  Speaker 2: a relative unknown.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he tells Rolling Stone. The first came from the
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  Speaker 1: late great Robert Redford, who joke to him after his
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  Speaker 1: breakout movie Sling Blade won him a writing oscar, Hollywood
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  Speaker 1: is going to try to hire you to write some
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  Speaker 1: big budget alien movie. Don't do it, so he didn't.
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  Speaker 1: He stayed in the indie world and grew from there.
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  Speaker 3: And the other wisdom came from an unknown character actor
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  Speaker 3: who said, never play the villain in a big popcorn movie.
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  Speaker 3: Never killed Tom Cruise or Tom Hanks on screen.
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  Speaker 2: And Billy literally still reminds his agents, I'll never kill
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  Speaker 2: either Tom Hanks nor Cruise, And three decades later, he's
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  Speaker 2: still going strong and hasn't harmed for Tom. Season two
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