Life is magical and I guess my thing is I wish that people wanted that magic. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I never wanted to write a book, and people have asked me for years to do it. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
People over 40 stay home and watch television, that's why there are no movies out there. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Reality shows are usually created by people doing and saying stupid things. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I think people can live a religious life and yet believe in things maybe outside the box a little bit. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
People's attention spans are a little shorter these days. Same thing with food and movies. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
People always like stories about the little guy fighting the big guy. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
People think you have to be tortured or miserable to write, but I'm finding that I get inspired a lot more these… — 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
The ones that work out really and ones that become something to the audience, those are the most important people. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
People a lot of times say that you know it must be hard to direct yourself. That's a myth. It's easier to… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
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… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
When you weigh 135 pounds and you're telling people who are 6'4" and 250 pounds to get out of your way, how… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
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… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Nowadays the movies that people are going to see in the theaters are the big-event movies, like Spider-Man or something, or they're… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I don't like movies that are shot on green screen much, you know. I mean, I know that's the thing to do,… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
My process started when I was born. The process is life experience. I believe that what makes you an artist, or at… — 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
We're not encouraging idols other than on the TV show, you know and that's the wrong way to do it. If we… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
On TV you can, you know you can cram, you know, 30 people into a closet and have an orgy, and then… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
It's the hardest thing in the world to be in a business where it's all about people accepting you, and you have… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Everything is very convenient now and it would be real nice if somehow people started going back to the movie theater. And… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Directing is a big responsibility to take on. I think I'm only good at doing things I know very well. I don't… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
There was a time when I could walk down the street, Hollywood Boulevard or Beverly Drive, and somebody would come up to… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
You know, some people can't get past their past, I guess. I certainly haven't. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
LA has its own vibe. It has a charm that a lot of people overlook sometimes. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
When people wear shoes that don't fit them, it says something about their soul. Generally, I think it means they are good… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
If someone is talking to you and tells you that you ought to do something, and you can tell they mean it,… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
People want the truth but they only want the truth so they can talk bad about you on the blog or on… — 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'll always consider myself a Southerner. A lot of people put California down, but my dreams were realized there. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I'm really influenced by Southern novelists, not many movie people. More like John Faulkner, William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Flannery O'Connor, John Steinbeck,… — 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
These days movies are cut very quickly and sort of fragmented and I tend to do slower moving stories where people develop… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got kids and family and friends, and I… — 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
