Thornton says he was more comfortable watching sports at home while she was out and about, meeting with politicians, other do-gooders, and adoption agencies. "I never felt good enough for her," Thornton admits to GQ in a new interview. And Jolie never made him feel bad about his more subdued goals. Thornton says the larger issue was "I'm real uncomfortable around rich and important people." And he had no want to start different—"I like how I am."
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Being married to the most exquisite woman on the planet is like that. Not easy, at least not according to Billy Bob Thornton, the actor and Oscar-winning screenwriter married to Jolie from 2000 to 2003. Though one is just partially covered, he still sports both tattoos of Jolie's name. "He and Angie are still friends, though, he says," writes GQ's Taffy Brodesser-Akner in a beautiful epilogue not often seen in Hollywood marriages. "They talk every few months, she's just so busy with the kids and work and the many houses in the many countries, but the minute they connect it's like old times (minus phlebotomy and face gnawing).”