Actors Quotes by Billy Bob Thornton

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

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

I've been largely an improvisational actor for most of my career.

— Billy Bob Thornton

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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