People Quotes by Billy Bob Thornton

People's attention spans are a little shorter these days. Same thing with food and movies.

— Billy Bob Thornton

Reality shows are usually created by people doing and saying stupid things.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I think people can live a religious life and yet believe in things maybe outside the box a little bit.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I never wanted to write a book, and people have asked me for years to do it.

— Billy Bob Thornton

People over 40 stay home and watch television, that's why there are no movies out there.

— Billy Bob Thornton

There aren't any people aligned with me passionately.

— Billy Bob Thornton

Life is magical and I guess my thing is I wish that people wanted that magic.

— Billy Bob Thornton

LA has its own vibe. It has a charm that a lot of people overlook sometimes.

— Billy Bob Thornton

The ones that work out really and ones that become something to the audience, those are the most important people.

— 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

People always like stories about the little guy fighting the big guy.

— Billy Bob Thornton

You know, some people can't get past their past, I guess. I certainly haven't.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I'll always consider myself a Southerner. A lot of people put California down, but my dreams were realized there.

— Billy Bob Thornton

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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