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Billy Bob Thornton Quotes

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I’ve been largely an improvisational actor for most of my career  (Billy Bob Thornton Quotes) Basically there are no stars anymore. The audience is the star  (Billy Bob Thornton Quotes) People always like stories about the little guy fighting the big guy  (Billy Bob Thornton Quotes) You can’t knock a place where you realized your dreams  (Billy Bob Thornton Quotes) People’s attention spans are a little shorter these days. Same thing with food and movies.  (Billy Bob Thornton Quotes) There are rules in movies. I did a movie playing a bad cop who was a heroin addict but they wouldn’t let me smoke in a movie.  (Billy Bob Thornton Quotes) Now, if you want to do realistic, kind of heavier acting stuff, you do it on Amazon or Netflix or whatever or HBO  (Billy Bob Thornton Quotes) It’s not that I don’t understand it. But people think if you speak with an English accent it somehow makes you smarter  (Billy Bob Thornton Quotes) They were on the set of Bad Santa but I tried to keep the headphones away from them. My kids have seen Sling Blade, they’ve seen Armageddon, Bandits and Friday Night Lights. They have not seen Monster’s Ball, nor will they ever, even when they’re sixty [laughter]. I will leave it in my will that they can never see it  (Billy Bob Thornton Quotes) 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  (Billy Bob Thornton Quotes) 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  (Billy Bob Thornton Quotes) When I was growing up, when I was 11 years old I was listening to The Mothers of Invention. You know, I mean I was a Frank Zappa fan in Arkansas  (Billy Bob Thornton Quotes) If you’re 25 years old dressed up like Superman at a comic book convention, that’s great. If you’re 78 and you’re doing it, something’s wrong  (Billy Bob Thornton Quotes) I’m as highly insecure as a human can be  (Billy Bob Thornton Quotes) When I saw that show Lost I learned something. Other than one sort of big dude if you’re in an airplane crash only models survive. So you know sit next to somebody pretty, but anyhow  (Billy Bob Thornton Quotes) 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  (Billy Bob Thornton Quotes) Movies now, you can watch a trailer for a movie on TV now and you’re not sure if it’s a video game or a movie. You have to wait till the end of it to see, oh, I see, those actors are in it, so that one’s a movie. Oftentimes, it’s based on a video game  (Billy Bob Thornton Quotes) Heavy role in the movies that I’ve done that I have loved and fit my soul; A Simple Plan, Monster’s Ball, Sling Blade, One False Move, Bad Santa even. I mean Bad Santa is a comedy, and it’s a very dark comedy, and it’s become like iconic, you know  (Billy Bob Thornton Quotes) Normally you’re 21 years old and you look like Tom Cruise and you do a couple underwear commercials first and then you’re a movie star. That didn’t happen for me. So it was all quite overwhelming  (Billy Bob Thornton Quotes) I’ll always consider myself a Southerner. A lot of people put California down, but my dreams were realized there  (Billy Bob Thornton Quotes) I have been fortunate to get some really good scripts over the years and I haven’t turned down anything that I regretted so far. And my manager who I’ve been with for over 25 years is very good at knowing what I should and shouldn’t do a lot of times  (Billy Bob Thornton Quotes) 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  (Billy Bob Thornton Quotes) Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there  (Billy Bob Thornton Quotes) Just the other day, my assistant was on the line with Calvin Klein. Golly, I usually shop at Sears  (Billy Bob Thornton Quotes) I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip  (Billy Bob Thornton Quotes) 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  (Billy Bob Thornton Quotes) I don’t see anything wrong with a cell phone. That’s great. You have a flat tire in the middle of the night; it works better than digging in your pocket for a quarter and looking for a payphone eight miles down the road.  (Billy Bob Thornton Quotes) I generally have lyrics first, but you can’t help that when you’re writing lyrics you start to get a melody in your head. So they come kind of simultaneously.  (Billy Bob Thornton Quotes) People think you have to be tortured or miserable to write, but I’m finding that I get inspired a lot more these days before I’m happy.  (Billy Bob Thornton Quotes) I write songs on guitar and that’s about how good of a guitar player I am. I can write songs on it.  (Billy Bob Thornton Quotes)
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