I think that’s the big difference between this one [Ordinary World] and a lot of the other rock ‘n’ roll movies. They’re playing to tape, but Fred Armisen and I were actually in a rock ‘n’ roll bad together.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGAs agent asked if I wanted to be represented, and I said, “Yeah, sure, I’ll give it a shot!” It was never something I had really put that much thought into. But then, Lee Kirk reached out and asked if I was interested, and I read the script of the [Ordinary World] and said, “Absolutely!”
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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I’m a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
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The things that people do now in sports, you can’t even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.
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No one’s really happy anyway, it’s not human.
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I know I’m always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That’s for sure. It’s about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined.
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I got body lice in Germany! I’d tell you they were crabs, but I wasn’t getting laid.
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I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
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No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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We’ve been a band for 16 years. This is what you dream about.
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Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.
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You don’t get nothing and like it.
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Music to me is the air I breathe it’s the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive
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Our passion is our strength.
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Minority is about being an individual. It’s like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.
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I don’t care what you do, I just don’t want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]
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We’d go through the script together, rehearsing it before every shot with the other actors. He was just easy to work with. We were able to put it in my language, which was really important.
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I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
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One thing I can’t do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.
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I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.
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Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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I like to keep my girlish figure
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Music – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
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You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?
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Madisyn [Shipman] was great. She’s a really talented kid. We got along great. It was fun, in between scenes, I’d pull out my iPod and show her different old rock ‘n’ roll and punk stuff, and she was really into it.
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I just open my mouth and out it comes.
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Some times I need to apologize, sometimes I need to admit that I ain’t right, sometimes I should just keep my mouth shut, or only say hello, sometimes I still feel I’m walking alone.
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The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don’t think what you’re doing is punk rock.
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