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Won 1 Oscar. See more awards ». Known For. Sling Blade Karl Childers. A Simple Plan Jacob. Monster's Ball Hank Grotowski. Show all Hide all Show by Hide Show Actor 98 credits.
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CatDog's Father voice. Boyce Hubert voice. The Grocer uncredited. In his contract for each film he does, there is a provision that states a list of demands.
One of them includes a television with a satellite hook-up to watch the St. Louis Cardinals when they are in season. Nephew of professional wrestler Dory Funk Sr. Once was told by director Billy Wilder that he was too ugly to be an actor and he should write a screenplay for himself in which he could exploit his less-than-perfect features.
Thornton later collected an Oscar for his Sling Blade screenplay. Was considered for the title role in Forrest Gump , which went to Tom Hanks. His daughter, Amanda Brumfield, 32, was convicted of aggravated manslaughter in the death of a neighbor's baby daughter she was babysitting, from a head injury while apparently climbing out of a playpen. His daughter, Amanda Brumfield, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for manslaughter. Directed one actor to an Oscar nominated performance: himself in Sling Blade Did not decide to pursue a career in acting until he was in his late twenties.
Worked as a waiter, fast food manager, telemarketer and offshore wind farmer in between acting gigs. After a short period laying asphalt for the Arkansas State Transportation Department, he attended Henderson State University to pursue studies in psychology, but he dropped out after two semesters.
Is very insistent on researching the roles he plays. If, for example, he has to play a lawyer and must use a lot of legal parlance, he will not deliver until he is fully conversant and familiar with every aspect of the legal terminology and formalities. This he usually does under the guidance of a qualified attorney, a route he chose for his role as lawyer Billy McBride in Goliath Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.
I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip. Acting is playing--it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that.
Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream. I can't sit through plays and musical theatre. I just want to run up onstage and mess up their hair and turn over the furniture.
It's not that I don't understand it. But people think if you speak with an English accent it somehow makes you smarter. I've been married five times, and people think that's some bizarre thing, yet I've got buddies who refuse to get married and have sex with 15 people a week.
I'm like "Which is better? People think the hard thing for an actor is crying and screaming, but that's easy. What's hard is a character who never tips his hand, who toes the line all the time.
The hard stuff is never telling yourself, "Hey, I better do something here. So the fact that they embrace me is a shock to me because I tell them to kiss my ass all the time.
I don't understand why they haven't thrown me out on my ear. The other thing is I don't participate much. I have very few friends within the movie community. I hang out with some guys I've known forever. They're all broke and eat me out of house and home.
But I stay home mostly and I don't go to the parties. Maybe that preserves me. Most of the movies that are easy to get financed are movies about models in gladiator uniforms and wacky comedies with kids who get caught with sheep in hotel rooms. And there is much more interference, to the point where it shows you that if there's something wrong in the film business - that's what it is.
Not to say that there aren't good big-budget movies, and that it can't be done, and some people aren't interfered with. I've been humbled by the whole thing. I don't think there is such a thing as movie actors and television actors anymore I just think there are just actors now.
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