I never expected to be a movie star. It's not that I didn't want to be, I didn't think about it. I… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I've been largely an improvisational actor for most of my career. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
All the actors I've worked with as a director over the years I really love and I thought they were all right… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I've watched other directors as an actor and I picked up little things here and there about cameras, [but] I wouldn't consider… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
If you want anybody to have a different voice, you really have to visualize and hear the voices of all these people.… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
When I was coming up in the '80s television, if you were on television that meant either you were a young actor… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
A lot of people are doing television now. Great, legendary actors are doing movies on cable and stuff now, and you can't… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I'm an actor. I'm not a performer. I'm not like a song and dance guy who can take a cane and a… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Movies now, you can watch a trailer for a movie on TV now and you're not sure if it's a video game… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
If Michelle Pfeiffer gave Mel Gibson a vial of blood to wear around his neck in a movie you'd think it was… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I think maybe I was instrumental in taking the stereotype out of the Southern actor is some ways. I would hope my… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Directing takes a good chunk of your life out. It's a very hard thing. As an actor, you go in for a… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I always say if you're going to do a movie about Charles de Gaulle get a Frenchman, you know. I'm not French.… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I grew up in Arkansas and that's the law. My dad was a high school basketball coach, so I was raised as… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
So we are headed for a time when there won't be anything but movies that are essentially made like video games, and… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I've really dreamed of doing television. All of us do television, coming up. But when I was coming up, television was a… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
All I'm saying is we got plenty of Texans, and people from Montana, and New Jersey, and Wyoming, or Kansas City. We… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
When people are bothering you constantly when you're trying to do just a simple thing that humans do every day but they… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I mean the most important thing you can have as an actor, writer, director, or whatever you are, poet or whatever it… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Robert Duvall taught me years ago. He said, "You know theatre is not real. I don't like plays." You know, he doesn't like plays.… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share
I think I fully commit myself to any role to the extent to which I can. In other words there's some roles that maybe… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share
Just the other day, my assistant was on the line with Calvin Klein. Golly, I usually shop at Sears. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share
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… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share
When I was coming up in the '80s television, if you were on television that meant either you were a young actor just coming… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share
The movies I've made about the South, they were my experience and it's something that I know. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share
Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share
I've been largely an improvisational actor for most of my career, except for when I've worked with the Coen brothers. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share
I always have an idea before we even start the movie because if you hire the wrong person, within a couple of days you're… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share
People want the truth but they only want the truth so they can talk bad about you on the blog or on television. They… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share
Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share
I've lived in California for half of my life. It's weird, everyone thinks of me as this guy who's from the South ... I'm… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share
People a lot of times say that you know it must be hard to direct yourself. That's a myth. It's easier to direct yourself.… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share
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