I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGThere’s nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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I played St. Jimmy on Broadway I sort of caught the acting bug. But I didn’t want to go full-bore into it because I have a lot to learn.
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I threw a big-ass party. It turned out a bit different from Perry’s [in That’s Ordinary World], but it was pretty nuts. It wasn’t me that threw it though, my wife threw me a surprise party. So [unlike Selma Blair’s character] she didn’t forget.
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If you have children, you don’t want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It’s just not good.
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The quietest are often working-class people, people who are broke. There is a fear of losing whatever it is that you have. I come from that background.
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I like to keep my girlish figure
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I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.
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I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It’s fragile. I don’t have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.
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I don’t want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
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You can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.
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Punk rock isn’t supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.
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Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn’t mean you have to go feeling that way forever.
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The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style of filmmaking, I felt more at home with that.
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I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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When someone is in a car accident and they’re driving at 100 mph, drunk, who’s tape do you think his listening to at that time? Think about it.
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If Britney Spears would paint her ass green, I’m sure you would spot green asses all over L.A., as soon as the word was out.
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