Life isn’t pretty but it sure is beautiful.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONGWe’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.
More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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I sort of enjoy the fact that I’m misunderstood most of the time. That’s fine.
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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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My wife is the CEO of the family. I’m the fun guy, just trying to make it up as I go along.
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I just plug in and let go.
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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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When all else fails…be a rockstar
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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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My job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.
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Pretty and demented at the same time, like me.
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No one’s really happy anyway, it’s not human.
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Our passion is our strength.
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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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I’d love to go to art school. I’d love to learn how to draw. I’d love to be fluent in Spanish. I’d like to be a brain surgeon.
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And you don’t want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
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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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She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn’s wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks… (iViva la Gloria!)
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I can’t sleep very well at night. It takes me a while to get to sleep. I could just be nocturnal. I have my nighttime witching hour where I hang out, listen to records or watch TV.
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I think we have the worst name in rock, I really do. It’s the worst name in the world
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We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
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What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock ‘n’ roll movies, that feature a band is that they’re lip-synching.
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That’s where all good music comes from, I think – anything that’s likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there’s no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal.
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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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Punk is always something that’s going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.
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I don’t like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn’t it sick?
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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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There’s an honesty in our family – my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.
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