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
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
When I saw that show Lost I learned something. Other than one sort of big dude if you're in an airplane crash… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
If you've written it you know exactly; whoever you're playing if you've written it you already know it. As a matter of… — 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
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
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… — 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
If you're in the heyday of rock and roll and movies, and that's where I grew up. We didn't have to look… — 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
Now, if you want to do realistic, kind of heavier acting stuff, you do it on Amazon or Netflix or whatever or… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
If you looked in magazines ... you never see me in those out-on-the-town pages. I'm either at home playing with the kids… — 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 Image
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 Image
Just the other day, my assistant was on the line with Calvin Klein. Golly, I usually shop at Sears. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
The movies I've made about the South, they were my experience and it's something that I know. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
