Top 191 Quotes & Sayings by Billy Bob Thornton
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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Every couple I know has side-by-side grave plots, but when we do it we're the biggest weirdos on the block.
I've been largely an improvisational actor for most of my career, except for when I've worked with the Coen brothers.
Why wouldn't you be afraid of a Komodo dragon? It's a dragon. It's a dinosaur.
I've never heard of anybody smoking a joint and going on a rampage. It makes you lie around on the floor and look at the ceiling. What's wrong with that?
If I hadn't gotten into the entertainment business, I would be probably making minimum wage still.
One of the most important things for an actor is to know who you are.
If someone is talking to you and tells you that you ought to do something, and you can tell they mean it, those are the scary people. Those are the people you want to watch out for.
I've been accused, many times, as a writer/director, of my pace being too leisurely and too long.
I love being an actor, doing it all. That's not exciting and controversial, but it's true.
Pushing Tin,' I went to air traffic control school in Toronto for that. Passed with flying colors, by the way. If I ever become an air traffic controller and I'm the guy in charge of your plane, you're in good hands.
My wheelhouse is intense characters who have a certain sympathetic streak and also a sense of humor.
You know, some people can't get past their past, I guess. I certainly haven't.
One of the great regrets of my life is that I don't play piano.
Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got kids and family and friends, and I don't like bad things. I don't think they're funny, and it's irresponsible to make movies that don't show you how that's not good.
I love independent film so much, and that's kind of where I made my mark.
I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.
My dad didn't hug me every day and say he loved me and anything like that.
I believe in running through the rain and crashing into the person you love and having your lips bleed on each other.
I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.
Tower Records is like a temple to me. I'll stay there for hours. Nobody can shop for records with me. It drives them out of their minds.
If you love somebody let them know every day.
I always have a guitar or ukulele in the trailer, and I write songs. That keeps me in an artistic mind-set.
Baby boomers don't go out as much, they aren't interacting with each other and they would rather stay home and watch TV. That's the audience for a guy like me, unless I'm doing 'Bad Santa.'
I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.
Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there.
I'm a vegan who cheats - that's what I call myself.
There aren't any people aligned with me passionately.
If you're in scenes with a guy you know really well in a comedy, you tend to crack each other up too much.
One of the greatest things about getting older as an actor is that you settle into who you are and you don't begrudge everyone else what they have.
I have type AB- blood, which is the rarest blood type. It's less than 1 percent of the whole population of the world, and it means that you don't have as many digestive enzymes.
I think television's amazing, and I'm going to do more of it. I love it. I think it's a great place to be, but I'm still going to keep doing movies too.
When people wear shoes that don't fit them, it says something about their soul. Generally, I think it means they are good people.
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.
Marketing is the devil.
Sometimes I'm playing somebody that I may have a problem with. Your job as an actor is not to go only play things that make you look good.
If you can make a color show or movie seem like it's in black-and-white, then you've done a really good job.
Just the other day, my assistant was on the line with Calvin Klein. Golly, I usually shop at Sears.
I can't see myself being a television director unless it's for a two-hour movie.
People have made sure of that, that you can't shock anybody anymore. It's not just because of movies and TV. It's because of what's happening in the world.
I quit flying years ago. I don't want to die with tourists.
Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.
I didn't have a burning desire to be a writer or director - writer probably more so, certainly not a director.
You know, what's popular? Okay, vampires are very popular. Let me make my vampire movie. I'm not saying you can't make a vampire movie. But if you're going to do one do something crazy. I mean don't just get a bunch of, like I said, models and make them into vampires so you'll get an audience. You know maybe get some ugly vampires for a change.
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?" At least I was trying.
It's the hardest thing in the world to be in a business where it's all about people accepting you, and you have a desperate need to be accepted, and yet you live in a, you operate in a society that's now very unaccepting.
I always wished there was somebody like the Coen Brothers and they appeared. And so yeah, my favorite role that I've ever done was in The Man Who Wasn't There. That's my very favorite character I've ever played.
I don't like movies that are shot on green screen much, you know. I mean, I know that's the thing to do, and I know that it's getting. I'll put it this way; David Lean would probably kill himself, you know, again if he knew that people were watching Lawrence of Arabia on a telephone.
I love acting with all my heart and I love music with all my heart.
My process started when I was born. The process is life experience. I believe that what makes you an artist, or at least an artist who can communicate the ideas that they want to get across, are people that have life experience.
I'm kind of sad and happy all the time. Just kind of like feeling, you know, full of life and confident, and at the same time terrified. I'm all of those things at once.
I am fairly embraced by the Hollywood community, and I love making movies and I love acting, but I'm not real crazy about the Hollywood system. 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.
I figured I would have to tell someone to kiss my ass before it was all over, and I have -- twice.
Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory.
There was a time when I could walk down the street, Hollywood Boulevard or Beverly Drive, and somebody would come up to you and they would say, "Excuse me," and you'd barely hear them, and you'd turn around and you'd say, "Yeah, how you doing?" and they'd say, "I'm really sorry to bother you, but my aunt is a big fan of yours, and would you mind terribly if you'd just sign this paper," or whatever it is, and you're happy to do that, and the people are pretty nice about it.
I attribute all my success to ignorance. If you don't ever think about not getting where you want to be, I think it helps you out.
Being perfect is not about that scoreboard out there. It's not about winning. It's about you and your relationship with yourself, your family and your friends. Being perfect is about being able to look your friends in the eye and know that you didn't let them down because you told them the truth. And that truth is you did everything you could. There wasn't one more thing you could've done. Can you live in that moment as best you can, with clear eyes, and love in your heart, with joy in your heart? If you can do that gentleman - you're perfect!
Life is magical and I guess my thing is I wish that people wanted that magic.
Anytime you get a chance to play some extreme character, in any direction, it's always a great blessing.
Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.
You want to know the hardest thing about being smart?
What?
I pretty much always know what's going to happen next; there's no suspense.
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